Comment 1 for bug 899655

Great, this looks like a reasonable backport. A few tweaks:

 drush 4.5-2 is not currently available in Ubuntu:

    evan@caron:~$ rmadison drush
         drush | 2.0-6 | lucid/universe | source, all
         drush | 3.1-1 | maverick/universe | source, all
         drush | 4.4-1~lucid1 | lucid-backports/universe | source, all
         drush | 4.4-1~maverick1 | maverick-backports/universe | source, all
         drush | 4.4-1 | natty/universe | source, all
         drush | 4.4-2 | oneiric/universe | source, all
         drush | 4.5-4 | precise/universe | source, all

I'm going to assume you wanted 4.5-4, which means that we will also need to do a backport to Oneiric, so I've gone ahead and adjusted the bug for that.

I've uploaded test backports of drush 4.5-4 to my PPA (https://launchpad.net/~broder/+archive/backports-tests). Please test that the package builds, installs, and runs in all 4 releases.

drush has a single reverse-dependency (aegir-provision), but based on discussion on the last backport, it does not need to be tested.

Once you've finished testing, please set the status of the bug to Confirmed.

In order to make backports faster in the future, I'd recommend using the requestbackport script from ubuntu-dev-tools (currently available in either Precise or https://launchpad.net/~udt-developers/+archive/daily). The script walks through all of the testing required so that you can have it done when you open the bug.