Automatic import from debian package not found in Ubuntu

[Cesare Falco]

>> Is it because the package sits in the non-free section of the Debian
>> Archive ?
>
> No, it's not.  The problem was that our auto-sync script said this:
>
>   [New] mess_0.146-1
>   No previous publications in Ubuntu
>   OK (Y/n)?
>    * Trying to add mess ...
>   mess_0.146-1 is trying to override modified binary mame-tools_0.145-0ubuntu1.  OK (y/N)?
>
> ... and I didn't have a chance to check whether this was OK.  Can you
> say whether mess 0.146-1 completely supersedes mame 0.145-0ubuntu1, or
> are there outstanding Ubuntu changes that we'd need to preserve by way
> of a merge?
mame 0.146-2 has already anything needed for merging, but
I guess it requests manual sync to override my previous package
in the repository. Is this right?

Cheers,
Cesare.