On Jul 25, 2011, at 07:10 PM, Stefano Rivera wrote: >Hi Barry (2011.07.25_18:41:28_+0200) >> 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. > >You can, as soon as it's reported by rmadison, but you have to drive the >sync request manually (-C) if the changelog isn't available yet. There's >a bug filed about making that easier (LP: #693077). Hi Stefano. Yep, "reported by rmadison" was the manual polling action I mentioned; this is exactly what I start doing (manually) when I get the original notification. >Debian only does dinstalls 4 times a day [0], unlike Ubuntu which >publishes every 20 minutes (IIRC). After upload acceptance (which is >when the bug closing is done), the packages are available at [1]. > >[0]: http://ftp-master.debian.org/ >[1]: http://incoming.debian.org/ Cool, looks like I only have to wait another 30m to get my next batch of packages sync'd :). >We could make requestsync look at incoming when you provide a version >which isn't reported by rmadison yet. > >> Is there anything DEX can do to help? > >This sounds like something to be fixed in ubuntu-dev-tools. Interesting idea. Thanks for the bug reference. I'm subscribed now and will think about your suggestions. -Barry
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