[Bug 1073060] Re: Inconsistent behavior between syncpackage and requestsync in 0.143ubuntu0.1

[Stefano Rivera]

** Description changed:

- If a package exists in ${DEVELOPMENT_RELEASE}-proposed and
- ${DEVELOPMENT_RELEASE}, syncpackage and requestsync give different
- results.  Syncpackage checks against -proposed be default, while
- requestsync checks against proposed only if a package doesn't exist in
- -release.  At the time I did these requests, 1.1.2-1 was in raring-
- proposed:
+ == SRU ==
+ [IMPACT]
+ requestsync doesn't check proposed, and will include too many changelog entries in the bug
+ 
+ [TEST CASE]
+ Find a package like the one in the report, by running this UDD query:
+ 
+ SELECT rp.source, r.version, rp.version, d.release, d.version
+ FROM ubuntu_sources AS rp
+ INNER JOIN ubuntu_sources AS r
+   ON (rp.source = r.source
+       AND rp.version != r.version
+       AND r.release='raring')
+ INNER JOIN sources AS d
+   ON (rp.source = d.source
+       AND rp.version < d.version
+       AND r.version != d.version
+       AND d.release IN ('sid', 'experimental'))
+ WHERE rp.release='raring-proposed';
+ 
+ Run syncpackage and requestsync on it (without actually doing anything).
+ See that the changelogs differ.
+ 
+ == Original Report ==
+ If a package exists in ${DEVELOPMENT_RELEASE}-proposed and ${DEVELOPMENT_RELEASE}, syncpackage and requestsync give different results.  Syncpackage checks against -proposed be default, while requestsync checks against proposed only if a package doesn't exist in -release.  At the time I did these requests, 1.1.2-1 was in raring-proposed:
  
  $ requestsync -d experimental shiboken
  W: Target release missing - assuming raring
  Consider using syncpackage(1) for syncs that do not require feature freeze exceptions.
  Currently the bug report looks like:
  Summary (one line):
  Sync shiboken 1.1.2-2 (universe) from Debian experimental (main)
  
  Description:
  Please sync shiboken 1.1.2-2 (universe) from Debian experimental (main)
  
  Changelog entries since current raring version 1.1.1-1:
  
  shiboken (1.1.2-2) experimental; urgency=low
  
-   * Add python{,3}-numpy-dbg to Build-Depends to have all tests pass.
-   * Make dbg tests build-critical.
+   * Add python{,3}-numpy-dbg to Build-Depends to have all tests pass.
+   * Make dbg tests build-critical.
  
-  -- Didier Raboud <odyx at debian.org>  Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:06:19 +0100
+  -- Didier Raboud <odyx at debian.org>  Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:06:19 +0100
  
  shiboken (1.1.2-1) experimental; urgency=low
  
-   * New 1.1.2 "Alaursa" release.
-     - Add 6 1.1.2-specific symbols;
+   * New 1.1.2 "Alaursa" release.
+     - Add 6 1.1.2-specific symbols;
  
-   * Update B-Ds:
-     - add python{,3}-numpy to succeed all tests.
+   * Update B-Ds:
+     - add python{,3}-numpy to succeed all tests.
  
-  -- Didier Raboud <odyx at debian.org>  Tue, 04 Sep 2012 08:47:15 +0200
- 
+  -- Didier Raboud <odyx at debian.org>  Tue, 04 Sep 2012 08:47:15 +0200
  
  Edit [y|N]? ^C
  User abort.
  $ syncpackage -d experimental shiboken
  syncpackage: Source shiboken -> raring/Proposed: current version 1.1.2-1, new version 1.1.2-2
  syncpackage: New changes:
  shiboken (1.1.2-2) experimental; urgency=low
  
-   * Add python{,3}-numpy-dbg to Build-Depends to have all tests pass.
-   * Make dbg tests build-critical.
+   * Add python{,3}-numpy-dbg to Build-Depends to have all tests pass.
+   * Make dbg tests build-critical.
  
-  -- Didier Raboud <odyx at debian.org>  Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:06:19 +0100
+  -- Didier Raboud <odyx at debian.org>  Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:06:19 +0100
  Sync this package [y|N]? y
  syncpackage: Request succeeded; you should get an e-mail once it is processed.
  
  The syncpackage behavior is the one we want.

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  Inconsistent behavior between syncpackage and requestsync in
  0.143ubuntu0.1

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