Citando Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx>:
Fabio Pedretti wrote:It would be nice to extend the "Copy packages" feature to be able to also copy packages from Ubuntu repositories to PPAs.This feature actually exists, it's just been kind of deliberately buried because the "copy packages" page usually times out because of the sheer number of packages in Ubuntu. If you happen to know to construct an URL like https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+copy-packages?field.name_filter=quilt&field.series_filter=karmic you can actually copy packages from the primary archive to PPAs (you need to fill in the filters to narrow the package selection enough for the page to not time out).
Nice, I didn't know of that feature.
HOWEVER...That would be useful to easily backport packages from the development version to the stable versions.*Please* do not use this for backporting packages. If you do copy source into a previous series, then the result will be packages built in the previous series environment but which have the same version number as the official packages. As a result, when someone installs the 'backported' packages and then later upgrades to the Ubuntu release they were backported from, those packages will *not* get upgraded, potentially leading to all kinds of bizarre and really difficult to debug problems. This is why any backport should always use a ~foo version suffix.
It would be nice if that could be automagically added when copying packages to older series than that the package come from. Or is this asking too much?
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