Default to syncing from testing for precise

[Stefano Rivera]

We want to sync from testing for precise, so we'll need some SRUs.

I've added preliminary support for spotting LTSs to distro-info so that we can do this automatically in the future.

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/distro-info.git;a=commitdiff;h=16a737845a616377e7ba2a0f73f647c4bccea2b7

SRU Verification:
1. Find a package with different versions in precise, unstable, and testing.
2. "syncpackage --simulate $packagename" should sync from testing, not unstable (and show changelog entries excluding the version in unstable) (--force may be necessary if there is an Ubuntu delta)
3. "requestsync $packagename" should request from testing, not unstable (and show changelog entries excluding the version in unstable
4. requestsync and syncpackage should be able to sync from unstable with the "-d unstable" option

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

Uploaded to oneiric-proposed. Please copy-up to precise.

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[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Stefano, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ubuntu-dev-tools into oneiric-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Iain Lane (laney)]

I tested syncpackage with a package that needed forcing, ghc, with and without -d unstable. I did the same with requestsync, additionally with and without --lp. All worked fine.

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

Thanks laney. This can't be copied up any more, but as soon as distro-info has transitioned to testing, we'll do a new upload of it with the long term fix and sync that to precise.

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

Oh, sorry, it can still be copied up. I thought u-d-t had been synced.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-dev-tools - 0.132ubuntu0.1

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ubuntu-dev-tools (0.132ubuntu0.1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * syncpackage, requestsync: Default to syncing from testing (LP: #876400)
 -- Stefano Rivera <email address hidden> Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:35:36 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-dev-tools - 0.134

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ubuntu-dev-tools (0.134) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Stefano Rivera ]
  * mk-sbuild: Correct typo in variable name. Thanks Laurent Declercq.
    (Closes: #645917)
  * Remove massfile. Neglected and unused (LP: #145598)
  * syncpackage, requestsync: Sync from testing for LTSs (LP: #876400)
  * syncpackage:
    - Ignore CURRENT blacklisting: it's buggy, and we don't have a good use
      for it.
    - Always display blacklist comments, if they exist.
    - Display timestamps for DSD blacklist comments.
    - Add --fakesync option, relegating --no-lp to really crazy corner cases.
  * sponsor-patch: Compare new sync version to the current Ubuntu version,
    rather than itself (LP: #878499)
  * sponsor-patch.1: Mention syncs (LP: #882085)

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * syncpackage: Catch user abort.

  [ Scott Moser ]
  * mk-sbuild: better support apt http proxy (LP: #881654)

 -- Stefano Rivera <email address hidden> Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:16:15 +0200