Thursday, 7 December 2023

Re: Running Britney locally against a PPA, how to keep Britney from thinking my PPA package is in main?

On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 06:20:58PM -0600, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
> So... if I'm understanding correctly, it's sufficiently safe for me to
> request the signon package to be synced from Debian into Ubuntu?

Yes, this is the normal and default process.

> If so, I'll file a sync request bug report, then watch for fallout once
> the package lands in -proposed. If it breaks things, I can work on fixing
> them, and if it *really* breaks things, we can revert to the original
> version via a +really upload, I believe. I just wanted to have everything
> go as smoothly as possible.

We typically wouldn't even do a +really upload, but instead just remove the
broken version from -proposed.

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