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[William Grant <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 17:50 +0000, Julian Edwards wrote:
> William Grant wrote:
> > dpkg is not appropriate for the official backports project. I find it
> > extremely unlikely that an official backport would be approved.
> 
> Ok so it turns out that Colin W has a backported package available (it's
> already in use on merges.u.c).

Ah, of course. Perfect.

> Before we use it on the hardy production servers, it needs a serious
> soak test on dogfood and in the test suite.  Have you done the latter
> already?

I've run the archiveuploader/archivepubliser/builddmaster/soyuz tests.

> I'll get it installed on dogfood.

Thanks. And its buildd(s)?

> > Note that the powerpc buildds still run Dapper, which could throw a
> > spanner in the works.
> 
> Urgh, really?  :/

Unless that has changed in the last couple of weeks.