Comment 2 for bug 890621

As I'm not very familiar with hg-git either.
Maybe my patch will be a diff between the latest version and the old version.
But you said SRUs don't do full upload.
How can I handle this ?

On 11/16/11, Evan Broder <email address hidden> wrote:
> Are you interested in backporting hg-git because it introduces new
> features, or because it fixes bugs?
>
> We prefer to use the backports process only for introducing features,
> and not for fixing bugs. Because backports aren't installed by default,
> it means that not everybody gets access to the bug fix.
>
> For fixing bugs we use the SRU process (Stable Release Updates -
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates). However, because of
> stability risk, we don't do full version upgrades in SRUs, so we need to
> have an isolated, minimal patch in order to fix the issues.
>
> Can you pick out the patches required to fix the mercurial
> incompatibilities, and also provide a description of how to reproduce
> the crashes? Since it sounds like this could have broad impact for hg-
> git users, I'm happy to drive the SRU process - regardless of whether or
> not we continue with the backport - but I don't have any familiarity
> with hg-git.
>
> If there are actually new features from hg-git 0.3.1 that you would
> still like to backport, please test that the current version of the
> package builds, installs, and runs in oneiric. You can test this using
> the backportpackage scripts in ubuntu-dev-tools to build in a PPA, by
> running something like
>
> backportpackage -u ppa:<lp username>/<ppa name> -s precise -d
> oneiric hg-git
>
> Once you've verified that the package builds, installs, and runs, please
> change the status of this bug to "Confirmed". In the mean time, I'm
> going to mark it as "Incomplete" so that the backporters can keep track
> of which bugs we've dealt with.
>
> ** Changed in: oneiric-backports
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/890621
>
> Title:
> Please backport hg-git(0.3.1-1) from precise to oneiric
>
> Status in Oneiric Backports:
> Incomplete
> Status in “hg-git” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in “hg-git” source package in Oneiric:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> hg-git 0.2.6 will cause mercurial ( >= 1.9) crash.
> 0.3.1-1 fixed this bugs.
>
> see changelog of hg-git for more details.
>
> please backport hg-git to oneric.
>
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Qijiang Fan
College of Computer Science and Technology
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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