Thank you, Robie, I filed my first bug report. As I understood from the wiki I should at least bump `debian/chanelog` with mention of the bug report. Are there any other requirements for my packages? Should I store these changes in git?
Also is this possible to sync the package from the Debian's new queue? On Mon, 2020-03-16 at 10:09 +0000, Robie Basak wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 10:44:38AM +0100, Sepi Gair wrote: > > I'm preparing some new packages for the Debian distro. My packages > > are > > made for XTRX SDR support. Some of them are currently in Debian's > > new > > queue. This queue is pretty slow however I want to see my packages > > in > > the next LTS release of Ubuntu. > > Thank you for caring for your packages in Ubuntu! > > Unfortunately the next LTS release of Ubuntu is already beyond > feature > freeze. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseSchedule and > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze. > > However, the release team may be willing to accept entirely new > packages > on the basis that they usually carry minimal risk to the archive. See > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess for details on how to > ask > for this. However you will need a feature freeze exception review, > sponsorship review, and source and binary NEW reviews, and it's > already > late, so there's no guarantee this will happen on time. If you want > to > try, I'd start with all of this without delay. > > > So does packaging specifically for Ubuntu make any sense for my > > task? > > I'll appreciate any advice about making this possible. > > Yes - it's fine and normal to upload to Ubuntu ahead of Debian NEW > review in order to make an Ubuntu release. The Ubuntu archive admins > do > have to prioritise though - since the cost to do this is duplicating > the > review that Debian would otherwise have done. > > HTH, > > Robie -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
