Hi! Colin Watson [2005-05-25 11:11 +0100]: > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 07:39:30AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 03:56:35PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me what this means, and who is trying to upload this to > > > Debian without even sending me a patch first? > > > > What it means: the Ubuntu maintainer for tla-load-dirs (sorry, don't know > > who) managed to send their package in the direction of the Debian upload > > queue instead of the Ubuntu one. I'm not sure why this happens, because an > > Ubuntu maintainer should (I presume) change their dput/dupload defaults to > > Ubuntu, and the dput/dupload packages in Ubuntu should probably have their > > defaults changed to Ubuntu, not Debian. > > It requires two mistakes to actually get such an upload accepted (you > need to get the distribution wrong in debian/changelog, *and* you need > to get the upload target wrong). People have made one or other mistake > in the past, but I don't think anyone's managed both simultaneously yet. > Plus you have to be in both upload keyrings, which wasn't the case here. Actually it's even a third required mistake: For Ubuntu we can only do source-only uploads, Debian only accepts binary uploads. Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian Developer http://www.debian.org
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