Am Mittwoch, den 26.10.2011, 11:13 -0400 schrieb Andrew Starr-Bochicchio: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Scott Kitterman <ubu...@kitterman.com> > wrote: > > On 10/26/2011 10:07 AM, Stefano Rivera wrote: > >> > >> Hi Scott (2011.10.26_16:01:15_+0200) > >>>> > >>>> One tool to rule them all. ;) > >>> > >>> It's probably a somewhat archaic view, but that's not a very Unix > >>> like approach to the problem. If I was going to work on syncing a > >>> package, I'd expect the tool for syncing packages to be the one I > >>> wanted to use ... > >> > >> But there's a big overlap in functionality. Reviewing a merge and a sync > >> both require test building, and a having a quick look at the diff and > >> new changelog entries. > >> > >> Also, native syncs can't indicate sponsorship, yet (LP: #827555), so > >> syncpackage isn't much help. > > > > For sponsoring, sure, but for your own uploads, not so much. > > > > I should probably remember I'm on break from Ubuntu development and not get > > sucked into this, but I'll just throw out the idea that if sponsor-patch is > > doing the job, then the issue isn't one of can/can't, but where the > > functionality should most properly reside. > > My impression is that sponsor-patch doesn't sync the package correctly > indicating the bug filer as uploader, which is is the behavior that > I'd like to see in syncpackage.
I think you mixed both names up. syncpackage does not yet support indicating the bug filer as uploader. Until that is fixed, sponsor-patch will subscribe ubuntu-archive. When this bug is fixed, sponsor-patch will use syncpackage to sponsor a sync. > I think it just sets the bug to > confirmed, subscribes ubuntu-archive, and unsubscribes the sponsors > team. As such, it has more to do with sponsoring rather than syncing. > So sponsor-patch seems like a good bike shed to keep it in. Of course, > I'm not sure as none of this seems documented. (Just filed LP: > #882085) Yes, support for sync requests is not yet documented in the man page. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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