Mistaken auto-syncs from Debian unstable or experimental

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:00:53AM +0100, James Page wrote:
> On 11/01/12 16:43, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Not easily, unfortunately.  The best alternatives I can offer are:
> > 
> > * Upload groovy 2.0.0~beta2+really1.8.5-1, which is a copy of
> > 1.8.5-1. (Be careful, though, as this will satisfy
> > (build-)dependencies on groovy (>= 2.0.0); this is why "revert to
> > previous version" isn't a unilaterally safe option in a
> > publicly-available distribution.  If there are no such dependencies
> > and unlikely to be in the future then you can probably get away
> > with this.)
> > 
> > * Upload a separate groovy1.8 and convert everything relevant to
> > use that.
> 
> I think the first approach is best; I would prefer to maintain one
> delta against Debian - we can then deal with the upgrade as a normal
> transition once it enters unstable.
> 
> I'll do the upload today.

OK - but did you notice Brian's comment on this in
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2012-January/000682.html?

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]