Upgrading pristine-xz on jubany

[James Westby]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:32:59 +0200, Vincent Ladeuil <vila+udd at canonical.com> wrote:
> >>>>> Barry Warsaw <barry at ubuntu.com> writes:
> 
>     > On Jun 14, 2012, at 05:21 PM, Vincent Ladeuil wrote:
>     >> - I'm already running successful tests inside a quantal lxc container :)
> 
>     > It has become for many of us not just a nice-to-have but a
>     > must-have for Ubuntu development.
> 
> That's my understanding as well.
> 
> Here are my last achievements for the week:
> 
> - I got in touch with pristine-tar maintainers resulting in a trivial
>   bugfix included in 1.25. This is a small step in getting *known* as a
>   primary consumer but it also demonstrates that we can get fixes
>   upstream quickly (1.25 has already been uploaded to sid and quantal).
> 
> - I got in touch with xz maintainers and a fix is on its way there
>   (many thanks to Lasse Collin for its invaluable help here). This will
>   require an additional fix to pristine-xz which I will submit as soon
>   as I can test the xz fix).
> 
> With these fixes in place, on quantal, it should remain only < 10
> pristine-tar import failures out of the current 338 on jubany.

That's great work Vincent, I look forward to it being deployed, however
that happens :-)

Thanks,

James