Comment 6 for bug 57418

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: Support debtags in Packages.gz

I think we could do it as a maintenance thing, if we reframe it.

Syncing with debian isn't an LP core facility: yes its needed, but that doesn't need to be part of LP.

What we need is:
 - support for storing debtags in LP, presumably in a distroseries-sourcepackage or perhaps distro-sourcepackage
 - support for exporting them in Packages.gz

Importing from Debian and applying deltas from debian can be done over the LP API.

The LP dev + ops could take on the gardening of the importer if needed. It would just be a regular script though - no need for it to be part of the LP tree.

I think this makes the LP specific scope much narrower.