Packaging specifically for Ubuntu

[Sepi Gair]

Thank you, Robie, I filed my first bug report.

As I understood from the wiki I should at least bump `debian/chanelog`
with mention of the bug report. Are there any other requirements for my
packages? Should I store these changes in git?

Also is this possible to sync the package from the Debian's new queue?

On Mon, 2020-03-16 at 10:09 +0000, Robie Basak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 10:44:38AM +0100, Sepi Gair wrote:
> > I'm preparing some new packages for the Debian distro. My packages
> > are
> > made for XTRX SDR support. Some of them are currently in Debian's
> > new
> > queue. This queue is pretty slow however I want to see my packages
> > in
> > the next LTS release of Ubuntu.
> 
> Thank you for caring for your packages in Ubuntu!
> 
> Unfortunately the next LTS release of Ubuntu is already beyond
> feature
> freeze. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseSchedule and
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze.
> 
> However, the release team may be willing to accept entirely new
> packages
> on the basis that they usually carry minimal risk to the archive. See
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess for details on how to
> ask
> for this. However you will need a feature freeze exception review,
> sponsorship review, and source and binary NEW reviews, and it's
> already
> late, so there's no guarantee this will happen on time. If you want
> to
> try, I'd start with all of this without delay.
> 
> > So does packaging specifically for Ubuntu make any sense for my
> > task?
> > I'll appreciate any advice about making this possible.
> 
> Yes - it's fine and normal to upload to Ubuntu ahead of Debian NEW
> review in order to make an Ubuntu release. The Ubuntu archive admins
> do
> have to prioritise though - since the cost to do this is duplicating
> the
> review that Debian would otherwise have done.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Robie