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

[Scott Kitterman]

Public bug reported:

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.

 -- 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;

  * 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


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.

 -- 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.

** Affects: ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu Quantal)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu Raring)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Also affects: ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu Quantal)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu Raring)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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  Inconsistent behavior between syncpackage and requestsync in
  0.143ubuntu0.1

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