Here's something that comes up fairly often for me, and I don't know whether there's a better way to handle this. If not, maybe there should be. :) Quite often I make some changes to a package in Ubuntu, but I don't actually want to upload to Ubuntu first. A good, recent example, are many changes to switch Python packages to use dh_python2. In cases where there is currently no Ubuntu delta, I always use `submittodebian` to create an issue in Debian, attaching the patch I used to make the switch. The principle being, let's try to get the patch into Debian first, and then sync to Ubuntu. This often works quite well. For many packages, just waiting a few days or a week finds that the Debian maintainer will incorporate the patch and close the issue. Then, I'll get a nice email that contains something like this: -----snip snip----- Source: ibus-table Source-Version: 1.3.0.20100621-3 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of ibus-table, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: ibus-table_1.3.0.20100621-3.debian.tar.gz to main/i/ibus-table/ibus-table_1.3.0.20100621-3.debian.tar.gz ibus-table_1.3.0.20100621-3.dsc to main/i/ibus-table/ibus-table_1.3.0.20100621-3.dsc ibus-table_1.3.0.20100621-3_all.deb to main/i/ibus-table/ibus-table_1.3.0.20100621-3_all.deb -----snip snip----- So far so good. The problem comes in that afaict, this doesn't mean that the source package is actually available in the Debian archive yet, and I (think I) cannot do a syncrequest in Ubuntu until it is. However, I'll never get a notification about its *actual* availability, so the above email just puts me in poll-mode. That's not ideal, especially because I don't really know how long I will have to poll, or at what interval, etc. I think one of two things could help: * Update the bug report (using the Closes: tags) when the source package is actually available in the Debian archive. * In Ubuntu, somehow be able to set up a "pending sync request" so that when I get the above email, I could effectively say "hey, when you can, please sync the new Debian package". Of course, for the benefit of the archive admins, you'd like the relevant Launchpad bug to provide the notification itself when the request version becomes available. Or maybe something else. Is there anything DEX can do to help? Cheers, -Barry
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