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[Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?
> 
> 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.

They don't do that (although the ec2test ones could, but they're easy to
update these days anyway).

Cheers,
mwh