On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 07:54:59PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 19:31 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 01:26:41PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > we just received the following request for 2011d in lenny-volatile and > > > squeeze-updates. Could you prepare the uploads? > > > > I should have a bit of time tonight to work on that, unless Clint does > > it before. I have already something ready (but currently a too bad > > connection to do something else than mail). > > Thanks. > > > However I have to say I am a bit lost with volatile, updates and so on. > > If I understand correctly, we should have a new version in > > lenny-volatile and squeeze-updates, and in fine also in lenny and > > squeeze. What are the required uploads to reach this state, which suites > > to target and in which case should I include a .orig.tar.gz with the > > upload? > > Taking the easy one first :-) > > volatile > ======== > > Target either "lenny-volatile" or "oldstable"; the latter means you can > re-use the upload for ftp-master. This should include the .orig.tar.gz > > ftp-master > ========== > > lenny: Target "lenny" or "oldstable". > squeeze: Target "squeeze" or "stable"; SRM will then add it to > squeeze-updates. > > As a general rule, when you're uploading the same upstream version to > multiple distributions at the same time only one of them should include > the .orig.tar.gz; otherwise queued on ftp-master will helpfully silently > delete the second and subsequent uploads before they even reach dak. > > In this case I'd suggest including the .orig.tar.gz in the lenny upload, > so that you can simply re-upload that to volatile. > > As an added note to the above, "same time" is potentially a period > lasting several days. If, for example, you'd uploaded the unstable > package yesterday, the .orig.tar.gz would still be visible on > http://incoming.debian.org/ and should not be included. > > In summary for this upload: > > - volatile - lenny-volatile or oldstable, include .orig > - lenny - lenny or oldstable, include .orig > - squeeze - squeeze or stable, don't include .orig > > Hope that helped.
Thanks a lot for the clear explanations, it something I'll keep preciously for the next uploads. I have uploaded tzdata 2011d to volatile, lenny and squeeze, I hope everything will be fine. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110323224411.ga8...@hall.aurel32.net
