2011/8/25 Thomas Goirand <[email protected]>: >> If you (or I) do a one-off backport, we then upload a source package and >> then, often, don't shove the code anywhere. That's because a lot of the >> time it's easiest just to do dget, hack version, debuild -S, dput. > > Outch! Bad habit. Better do: > > git checkout upstream-squeeze-backport
Except not every package lives in git. > git cherry-pick -x <sha256-sum> ..and not every (in fact, hardly any at all) backport involves cherry-picking anything. They're mostly a matter of grabbing the package from sid or $UBUNTU_DEV_RELEASE, adding a changelog entry, and uploading to an older version of Ubuntu (in the PPA). These are packages that I have no intention of ever touching again. At least not until the next time we need a newer version, at which point I'll start over. -- Soren Hansen Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com/ OpenStack Developer http://www.openstack.org/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
