backports release files in natty and above don't have new apt metadata

[Scott Kitterman]

See https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-foundations-n-backports-notautomatic for details. The apt changes are landed now, so we need to make the Launchpad changes to make further progress.

We need to add two fields to -backports Release files for >= Natty:

NotAutomatic: yes
ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes

The latter will be ignored by older apts, but the former will not, so this cannot be done for older series.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

Sorry, that spec really doesn't help me understand what you want LP to do here.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

Scott, is there a deadline for this?

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Obviously we need it before Ubuntu releases, but the sooner the better as this is difficult to test in a representative way without the Launchpad changes.

There are also additional changes in the way Ubuntu Backports is run that depend on this change being in place. I need to take them to the tech board for approval and ( inevitably at this point) get a feature freeze exception. The sooner the better from this perspective too as the longer I wait, the harder all that gets.

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

Fixed in db-stable r10367 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/db-stable/revision/10367>.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

This still needs to be enabled for Natty. Scott, can you confirm that we want to do that now?

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

I need to confirm this with the release team.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 06:04:53 AM you wrote:
> This still needs to be enabled for Natty. Scott, can you confirm that we
> want to do that now?

Yes. We want to do that now.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

It is done. The next change in natty-backports will make it NotAutomatic ButAutomaticUpgrades.