Re: Version string to auto-sync an Ubuntu delta (maysync1 vs ~willsync1)

2022-08-18 Thread Robie Basak
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 08:28:29AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > I'm concerned that this requires subscription to the package in Debian for > this to not fall off the radar. We have merges.ubuntu.com which tracks > which packages need to be updated, and the standing assumption is that the >

Re: Version string to auto-sync an Ubuntu delta (maysync1 vs ~willsync1)

2022-08-18 Thread Andreas Hasenack
Hi On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 12:28 PM Steve Langasek wrote: > > Hi Andreas, > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 10:24:31AM -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote: > > > I thought of: > > a) bite the bullet. Upload 4.4.0-4ubuntu2 dropping the delta, > > subscribe to the tiff package in debian, and sync it manually

Re: Version string to auto-sync an Ubuntu delta (maysync1 vs ~willsync1)

2022-08-18 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Andreas, On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 10:24:31AM -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote: > I thought of: > a) bite the bullet. Upload 4.4.0-4ubuntu2 dropping the delta, > subscribe to the tiff package in debian, and sync it manually the next > time there is a debian upload I'm concerned that this requires

Re: Version string to auto-sync an Ubuntu delta (maysync1 vs ~willsync1)

2022-08-18 Thread Andreas Hasenack
Oh, this is a rabbit hole... I'll just bite the bullet and drop the delta in 4ubuntu2, and watch for new debian uploads. On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 10:36 AM Marc Deslauriers wrote: > > On 2022-08-18 09:24, Andreas Hasenack wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 9:52 AM Lukas Märdian

Re: Version string to auto-sync an Ubuntu delta (maysync1 vs ~willsync1)

2022-08-18 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 2022-08-18 09:24, Andreas Hasenack wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 9:52 AM Lukas Märdian wrote: >> >> Am 25.05.22 um 13:22 schrieb Marc Deslauriers: >>> [...] We needed a version that does not contain the word "ubuntu", so it can be auto-synced, once the committed patch is

Re: Version string to auto-sync an Ubuntu delta (maysync1 vs ~willsync1)

2022-08-18 Thread Andreas Hasenack
And I forgot the links: 1. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.4.0-4ubuntu1 2. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lerc/+bug/1977551 On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 10:24 AM Andreas Hasenack wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 9:52 AM Lukas Märdian wrote: > > > > Am 25.05.22 um

Re: Version string to auto-sync an Ubuntu delta (maysync1 vs ~willsync1)

2022-08-18 Thread Andreas Hasenack
Hi, On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 9:52 AM Lukas Märdian wrote: > > Am 25.05.22 um 13:22 schrieb Marc Deslauriers: > > [...] > >> We needed a version that does not contain the word "ubuntu", so it can be > >> auto-synced, once the committed patch is uploaded into Debian. But at the > >> same > >> time

Re: Version string to auto-sync an Ubuntu delta (maysync1 vs ~willsync1)

2022-05-25 Thread Lukas Märdian
Am 25.05.22 um 13:22 schrieb Marc Deslauriers: [...] We needed a version that does not contain the word "ubuntu", so it can be auto-synced, once the committed patch is uploaded into Debian. But at the same time we needed it to be bigger than the current version (1.0.1-3build2) and wanted it to

Re: Version string to auto-sync an Ubuntu delta (maysync1 vs ~willsync1)

2022-05-25 Thread Marc Deslauriers
Hi, On 2022-05-25 05:44, Lukas Märdian wrote: > Hi all! > > We had an interesting discussion with @enr0n and @brian-murray recently, about > which version string to choose if we want an Ubuntu package (+delta) to be > auto-synced, without the need for a manual merge. The results might be of >

Re: Version string to auto-sync an Ubuntu delta (maysync1 vs ~willsync1)

2022-05-25 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
In the past, when we did uploads into Ubuntu that we want to autosync, we simply used `+bN` as those are bigger than last debian source version, and get autosynced. It is a slight misnomer, as it is Debian's binNMU version number, but that also means none of debian's source versions may ever use

Version string to auto-sync an Ubuntu delta (maysync1 vs ~willsync1)

2022-05-25 Thread Lukas Märdian
Hi all! We had an interesting discussion with @enr0n and @brian-murray recently, about which version string to choose if we want an Ubuntu package (+delta) to be auto-synced, without the need for a manual merge. The results might be of interest for the broader Ubuntu developer community!