Discuss Ubuntu Backports
Some important backports improvements got landed in Natty. In this session interested people can get together and discuss what's next.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- Steve Langasek
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- Scott Kitterman
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Scott Kitterman
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for oneiric
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
Whiteboard
INFO: security team won't file bugs for backports. Instead this should be scripted in some way. ScottK tells me broder has a TODO to write a script to notice if a backport needs a security update based on looking at the -security pocket). This is a work item in https:/
micahg 2011-06-20: changed my requestsync task to the backporters team so it doesn't show up on my list of workitems for the security team, I'll still take care of this.
Work items for oneiric-alpha-2:
[dholbach] Ping pending members of ubuntu-backporters to gauge interest: DONE
Work items:
[kitterman] Approach TB about opening -backports at FF
[broder] Update backport-helper to deal with one bug, multiple target releases
[broder] Find someone to write requestbackport: DONE
[clint-fewbar] Write a requestbackport tool for ubuntu-dev-tools
[clint-fewbar] Check backports as part of the SRU tracker and sru-accept.py
[micahg] Look into updating security tools when a backported package has a security update: DONE
[ubuntu-
[broder] Update sync-helper to deal with uploading to -backports post -FF (pending TB approval)
[laney] Enable -backports in sources.list by default (proposed in lp:~laney/apt-setup/backports-default): DONE
Work Items
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
