Package autosync does not remember manual syncs from different distroseries

[Loïc Minier]

Hi,

I'd love if Soyuz would continue autosyncing Debian packages from experimental when a version was autosynced once. Either forever as an override (which needs to be removable), or until a higher version reaches unstable (we would then need to resync from experimental to track experimental again).

Thanks!

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

Possibly part of derivative distros

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

We could in principle do this client-side for Ubuntu now that we're doing auto-syncs over the API. I wonder if we really want this in all cases, though; I can easily imagine cases where you sync from experimental once but the next version along is far too scary.

I could imagine instituting a process whereby developers can ask archive admins to change the default auto-sync source for a package. Of course, if we did that, we'd then have to have somewhere to store that information, which ideally would be Launchpad; so maybe this does come back to the derivative distributions feature after all.