Dear Developers, For a long time, the process for requesting syncs from Debian has involved manual action on the part of the archive adminstrators. This was an inevitable source of delays and replacing this with a self-service process has been a wishlist item for some time now. Thanks to work by one of the Launchpad development squads (led by Julian Edwards) on the "derived distributions" project, we're happy to announce that the time has come to transition to just such a system for performing syncs.
Syncing is now driven by the `syncpackage' script in ubuntu-dev-tools (from Oneiric onwards). It works by asking Launchpad to copy a source package publication from another distribution already imported into Launchpad (Debian is imported a few times a day). The earlier direct-upload mode supported by this tool is still available using the `--no-lp' option, but is generally deprecated except for some corner cases and is no longer the default. In the Oneiric version, there is one significant bug around blacklisting (LP: #841372). If you have trouble with this, you should upgrade to a newer ubuntu-dev-tools (from the daily PPA https://launchpad.net/~udt-developers/+archive/daily or precise) with this bug worked around. To sync a package for yourself, invoke syncpackage as follows (full usage instructions in syncpackage(1)): syncpackage [-d debian_series] [--force] packagename --force is required to override Ubuntu changes. syncpackage may also be used to sponsor syncs. This feature was only added to Launchpad and syncpackage very recently, and so requires ubuntu-dev-tools from the PPA or precise. Pass -s <LP id of sponsoree> to syncpackage to record the sponsoree as the author of the sync. You should also pass -b <bugnumber> to close the bug which the sponsoree opened to request the sync (the process has not changed from the point of view of those being sponsored). sponsor-patch knows how to do this. The old archive-admin process is now deprecated: developers should be using syncpackage from now on. Regards, on behalf of the release and archive administration teams, Iain Lane Stefano Rivera Colin Watson -- Iain Lane [ i...@orangesquash.org.uk ] Debian Developer [ la...@debian.org ] Ubuntu Developer [ la...@ubuntu.com ] PhD student [ i...@cs.nott.ac.uk ]
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