data.tar.xz support added to Launchpad

Stefano Rivera stefanor at ubuntu.com
Tue Oct 25 20:59:59 UTC 2011


Hi Barry (2011.10.25_22:45:23_+0200)
> But this makes me think of another question: why didn't the Debian package
> have that same Pre-Depends.  Extrapolating from Steve's explanation, my guess
> is that they don't have the same distro-version restriction setup that we do
> (i.e. outside the chroot).
> 
> So what would happen if I just sync'd m2crypto instead of merging it?  Would
> it still fail without the Pre-Depends? (my guess: yes).  This would probably
> force me to add the Pre-Depends and upload a 1ubuntu1 version, since we'd be
> carrying a delta.  Unless i could convince the Debian maintainer to add that
> line for us.  It wouldn't have any negative consequences for Debian, would it?

Yes to all of the above.

There were a bunch of missing Pre-Depends in the initial syncs this
cycle.  They were all caught pretty quickly.

SR

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