On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 05:55:18PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Peter Samuelson writes ("Re: Uploading to multiple distros"): > > Since syncs from Debian are actually supposed to be the majority of > > packages in Ubuntu anyway, why not just do that - a real sync, not a > > fake simultaneous one. [...]
> Because that means that the Ubuntu developer needs to wait for Debian > to process the upload (which may involve waiting for NEW or other kind > of approvals). Ubuntu policy on package versioning holds that you shouldn't upload such a package to Ubuntu before it's been approved into Debian *anyway*, lest you end up with the package rejected in Debian and two different source packages with the same version number in Debian vs. Ubuntu... > > I suppose you mean put that functionality into this syncpackage thing. > > Because otherwise you're still going to need to run dpkg-genchanges > > twice, once presumably by hand with some sort of suite override switch, > > and that does rather break the abstractions of debian/rules, debhelper, > > and the like. > dpkg-buildpackage could run dpkg-genchanges as many times as there > were target suites. To upload to both Debian and Ubuntu, it would also have to pass different options since Ubuntu accepts only source uploads and Debian does not accept source-only uploads. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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