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[William Grant <wgrant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 16:31 +0000, Julian Edwards wrote:
> William Grant wrote:
> > These backports will be required in the ~launchpad PPA and the EC2
> > images (as the test suite verifies 3.0 behaviour), and on at least
> > cocoplum (Ubuntu ftpmaster), germanium (PPA ftpmaster) and iron (gina).
> 
> Once the packages are in backports, I can file an RT request and have
> them installed appropriately.  We only care about the latest release and
> the most recent LTS, so I don't expect we need to worry about
> backporting to anywhere other than hardy.
>
> I'm not sure why you need the packages in the PPA though?

dpkg is not appropriate for the official backports project. I find it
extremely unlikely that an official backport would be approved.

> I don't know anything about EC2 images; if they don't do an "apt-get
> upgrade" before running then yes, I guess they will need fixing.
> 
> > All buildds except hppa need these too, but a fix for bug #476036 would
> > remove that requirement
> 
> I will also file an RT for this; Lamont can sort that out I guess.

Note that the powerpc buildds still run Dapper, which could throw a
spanner in the works.

> > How would I best go about arranging this, preferably with minimal
> > sysadmin heart attacks?
> 
> Leave it to me! :)
> 
> When do you expect the packages to show up in hardy-backports?

As above, I don't. What now?