Packaging of new upstream versions in Ubuntu

[Stephan Hermann]

Hi Lucas,

please check which repository this is in.

Main packages are handled a bit differently.
All main developers can and have to package actual and more stable software in 
a shorter ammount of time. They can't wait for Debian most of the time. 
But, please think, that most main devs are Debian Developers or Package 
Maintainers.

If you have a look, most of the kde packages are not following the debian 
uploads. Many of the gnome packages are not following the debian schedules. 
But after reaching the ubuntu archives, all those changes are magically going 
back to debian :)


And gparted has always had 0ubuntuX :)


If the debian maintainer has problems with it, please send him to 
changelogs.ubuntu.com and to ubuntu-devel.

Regards,

\sh




On Wednesday 18 January 2006 18:41, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that some MOTUs package new upstream releases without
> notifying the Debian maintainer. Just to help understand the problem, an
> example of suchregularly  package is gparted, whose debian version is
> 0.0.9-1, while the current universe version is 0.1-0ubuntu1.
>
> Such work is nice, but please notify the Debian maintainer that you
> packaged the new upstream release:
>
> * duplication of work in the free software world is useless, we have
> enough to do.
> * this will make later merges much easier to do for us, since it avoids
> divergence.
>
> The easiest to do that is by filing a bug in the Debian Bug Tracking
> System.
>
> A. If there's no "new upstream release available" bug opened in the
> Debian BTS, you can use the following template as an example: (note that
> I haven't actually submitted a bug about gparted).
>
> ---------------
> To: submit at bugs.debian.org
> Subject: new upstream release available
>
> Package: gparted
> Version: 0.0.9-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: +patch
>
> Hi,
>
> I've noticed that a new upstream release for gparted was available
> (version 0.1). I've worked on packaging it inside Ubuntu. You can get
> patches from http://people.ubuntu.com/~scott/patches/gparted/
>
> Thank you for your work,
>
> Lucas
> ---------------
>
> If a "new upstream release available" bug (or similar) already exists,
> you can use this template (assuming the bug number is 424242) :
> ---------------
> To: 424242 at bugs.debian.org, control at bugs.debian.org
> Subject: new upstream release available
>
> tag 424242 +patch
> thanks
>
> Hi,
>
> I've worked on packaging version 0.1 inside Ubuntu. You can get
> patches from http://people.ubuntu.com/~scott/patches/gparted/
>
> Thank you for your work,
>
> Lucas
> ---------------
>
> Thanks all,
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