Packaging specifically for Ubuntu

[Robie Basak]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 02:58:08PM +0100, Sepi Gair wrote:
> Thank you, Robie, I filed my first bug report.

Great, thanks!

> 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?

Yes, and the package should be versioned with -0ubuntu1. For example if
the Debian package in NEW is 4.5.6-1, the Ubuntu upload would need to be
4.5.6-0ubuntu1.

I don't recall any other requirement, though I do find it hard to
remember everything without the package in front of me to prompt me.

Storing the changes in git is not required, but many do - for example
it's quite common to have Ubuntu packaging branches in Salsa.

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

IIRC, Debian doesn't publish its NEW queue - possibly because it hasn't
passed copyright/licensing review. You'll need to supply it for
sponsorship some other way. Ubuntu sponsors generally don't mind how it
is done, as long as they can easily grab the proposed source package for
review and upload. You could use a PPA for this for example, or some
file or VCS hosting somewhere else.

HTH,

Robie
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