Upload rearrangements for Raring

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:41:57PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Oct 22, 2012, at 05:04 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
> >I'm currently working on Launchpad changes in support of this.  The main
> >one is arranging to redirect all raring uploads to raring-proposed
> >instead (#1068071), and I expect that for most uploaders this will be
> >almost transparent.
> 
> Just to be clear, does this mean that when LP: #1068071 is fixed, we'll be
> able to just use 'raring' in our changelogs and everything will Just Work
> (i.e. the upload will get redirected automatically to raring-proposed).

That is the plan, unless LP folks nix it as being Too Magic.  (Part of
our justification is that Debian does this kind of thing for things like
mapping stable uploads to proposed-updates, and Soyuz has generally
tried to be at least somewhat Debian-compatible.)

> What about in the meantime?  Do we use raring-proposed to be explicit?

I'm hoping it's moot because it'll be fixed very soon.  It won't hurt to
use raring-proposed if you want to.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]