Keeping packages synced with upstream

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Sonntag, den 25.04.2010, 16:00 +0100 schrieb Kasper Peeters:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a couple of packages in Ubuntu (libmodglue1, cadabra) which came
> in through a sync with Debian. These packages were made by me, but
> uploaded to the Debian repositories by someone else. I need some advice
> on how to keep these synchronised with my own sources (i.e. upstream).
> 
> I tried to do this through Debian, i.e. pinging the Debian maintainer
> that there is a new tarball on my website, who then uploaded to the
> Debian unstable queue. However, this process lasts forever (months
> before it finally gets to the Ubuntu repositories), and essentially
> makes it impossible to keep an up-to-date version in Ubuntu.
> 
> How do I go about syncing this faster? Ideally I'd like a process that
> fetches the new sources and gets it into the Ubuntu repositories in some
> guaranteed time frame, so I do not miss the next Ubuntu release yet
> again... I do not particularly care much about having it updated in
> Debian at the same time, though that would obviously be preferable.

Going through Debian first is the preferred method. To speedup the
syncing process, you can request a sync (with the requestsync tool).

There are two ways to speed the packaging up that require packaging
skills:

     1. Offer the Debian Maintainer to co-maintain the package in
        Debian.
     2. Update the package in Ubuntu directly. You probably need to
        follow the sponsoring process [1].

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SponsorshipProcess

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org)
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