On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 08:44 +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: > [regarding copying packages from Ubuntu to PPAs for backporting] > > Fabio Pedretti wrote: > >>> That would be > >>> useful to easily backport packages from the development version to the > >>> stable versions. > > Max Bowsher wrote: > >> *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. > > Fabio Pedretti wrote: > > 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? > > It's a fair bit more difficult than it sounds at first, because this > implies unpacking the source package, prepending a new entry to > debian/changelog, and repacking a new source package. > > Though, implementing that would probably be enough to allow the Ubuntu > official backporters to do their work with less intervention required > from the archive admins, so it might be a worthwhile feature. This sounds like it could be conveniently worked into the feature to build packages from branches, as that has to do all that and more.
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