On 13/06/12 16:48, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Jun 11, 2012, at 01:54 PM, Vincent Ladeuil wrote: > >> It's unclear to me that we are *known* as a primary consumer. >> >> It's clear that we need fixes faster. Being able to report better bugs >> should helps us getting there and also make us known as a primary >> consumer. >> >> > And it provides better service to Ubuntu developers if we can turn >> > around an upgrade of that sort of thing without communication >> > across a Dev/Ops boundary. >> >> I agree with this goal too. >> >> For the record, I have a trivial fix for pristine-xz that address 2 >> failures and a wip that could well fix the ~140 left on quantal. > > Foundations team had a brief discussion about this today, and we'd love to get > this fixed. For example, we were looking at packagekit, which is out-of-date > because of this problem. > > If I'm reading the thread correctly, the choices are roughly between upgrading > jubany to precise and backporting pristine-tar and xz-utils (and their > dependencies) to precise, or in some way getting the importer running on > quantal. We're in favor of whichever approach can be accomplished quickest > and gives us the highest probability of long-term importer improvement and > success :). > > If it helps, one of our guys would be willing to help backport some packages > to precise, but I'll let him speak for himself. :) >
I defiantly would help back porting and validating backports if that's the route chosen. I heavily rely on package-import. It's no longer 'a demo' but really the only way I develop for ubuntu or debian (to have a nice debdiff). Regards, Dmitrijs. -- Regards, Dmitrijs. -- ubuntu-distributed-devel mailing list ubuntu-distributed-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-distributed-devel
