slowness of syncing process

Benjamin Drung bdrung at ubuntu.com
Tue Mar 23 23:42:55 GMT 2010


Am Mittwoch, den 24.03.2010, 07:38 +0800 schrieb Chow Loong Jin:
> On Wednesday 24,March,2010 05:47 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > "Benjamin Drung" <bdrung at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Am Dienstag, den 23.03.2010, 22:07 +0100 schrieb Martin Pitt:
> >>> Benjamin Drung [2010-03-23 22:00 +0100]:
> >>>> Why do we need that process? People that can upload a modified package X
> >>>> should be able to sync package X from Debian, shouldn't they? Shouldn't
> >>>> we have a script for doing a sync?
> >>>
> >>> For the record, there's [1], but please treat it with caution: In some
> >>> cases it gets the changelog entries (i. e. the ones landing in the
> >>> .changes) wrong, and it has never been blessed officially. However,
> >>> it's doing by and large what the Launchpad script is doing as well.
> >>>
> >>> I primarily use this for the packages which I (co-)maintain in Debian
> >>> as well; there I usually dput to Debian, syncpackage on the .dsc, and
> >>> upload to Ubuntu right away. I haven't tried it on any large-scale
> >>> sync processing.
> >>>
> >>> Martin
> >>>
> >>> [1] http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/scripts/syncpackage
> >>
> >> Thanks. I will take it as starting point. Please add a copyright and
> >> license header to your file.
> > 
> > I've got some improvements I've made locally. I'll publish those somewhere too.
> 
> How about adding this to ubuntu-dev-tools and maintaining it there so everyone
> benefits?

ubuntu-dev-tools is the right package for the scripts once we have a
reliable universal one.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org)
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