how to takeover locales

[Alexander Sack]

On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 04:28:10PM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:56:47PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
> > * Alexander Sack (asac at jwsdot.com) wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Thunderbird has a common source packages for all locales now.
> > > 
> > > Anyway, whenever I upload it to ftp-master it just gets eaten.
> > > 
> > > We receive a successfully uploaded mail, but neither 
> > > ACCEPTED nor NEW nor REJECETED mails are sent subsequently ...
> > > and neither does the package pop up in NEW.
> > > 
> > > Maybe we need to take over all replaced locale packages 
> > > first ... or even request their removal?
> > > 
> > > Anyone remembers the procedure that was followed for firefox 
> > > locales?
> > 
> > Are you trying to NMU it? Hijack it? Did you check the queues on
> > master to see if it ended up in one of them? Did you mail the
> > ftp-master? 
> 
> Its some kind of highjacking, yes ... nevertheless, maintainers 
> agreed to it.
> 
> Where are those queues on master? 
> 

Doesn't matter anymore. The reason was that there was a locale package
with an epoch. Fixing the version allowed the package to enter new queue.


 - Alexander

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