On 20/01/08 at 18:43 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hi, > > Wouter Stomp [2008-01-19 21:13 +0100]: > > Currently the automatic import of new packages from debian stops at > > the debianimportfreeze, which is very early in the release schedule. > > After that, sync requests have to be filed and acknowledged, which is > > a lot of unneccessary work I think and causes packages for which no > > requests are filed not to be in ubuntu, while they could have been. > > Would it be possible to automatically sync new packages in debian > > unstable until featurefreeze (or even later)? > > Technically this is not a problem at all. > > For discussing/changing the policy I'd recommend you to raise this > with the Technical Board. > > </officialy speaking> > > My own opinion: I tend to agree. It would steamline the job of > requesters and archive admins, and completely new packages are mostly > harmless. Since universe already has a magnitude more packages that > MOTUs can handle, it doesn't make the maintainability situation > significantly worse, eases source package renaming/lost build deps, > etc. I'm not 100% sure it's a good idea, but what about doing the same for packages which aren't a new upstream release? If the Debian maintainer uploaded a new debian-specific version, it's likely to be a bug-fixing upload. It might be harder to automatize, but still... -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F |
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