Are you interested in backporting hg-git because it introduces new features, or because it fixes bugs?
We prefer to use the backports process only for introducing features, and not for fixing bugs. Because backports aren't installed by default, it means that not everybody gets access to the bug fix. For fixing bugs we use the SRU process (Stable Release Updates - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates). However, because of stability risk, we don't do full version upgrades in SRUs, so we need to have an isolated, minimal patch in order to fix the issues. Can you pick out the patches required to fix the mercurial incompatibilities, and also provide a description of how to reproduce the crashes? Since it sounds like this could have broad impact for hg- git users, I'm happy to drive the SRU process - regardless of whether or not we continue with the backport - but I don't have any familiarity with hg-git. If there are actually new features from hg-git 0.3.1 that you would still like to backport, please test that the current version of the package builds, installs, and runs in oneiric. You can test this using the backportpackage scripts in ubuntu-dev-tools to build in a PPA, by running something like backportpackage -u ppa:<lp username>/<ppa name> -s precise -d oneiric hg-git Once you've verified that the package builds, installs, and runs, please change the status of this bug to "Confirmed". In the mean time, I'm going to mark it as "Incomplete" so that the backporters can keep track of which bugs we've dealt with. ** Changed in: oneiric-backports Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/890621 Title: Please backport hg-git(0.3.1-1) from precise to oneiric To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/oneiric-backports/+bug/890621/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
