Unison and some questions (was: Unison)

Hello.

John Dong:

> Unison from Dapper approved for backporting to Breezy.

Great!

How long does it take between when a package is
approved and when it actually makes it into backports?

> NOTE: this does break archive format compatibility with the previous
> 2.10release, though for Unison users the price is well worth it.
> In addition, other popular distributions are already using the new
> archive format, so this brings Ubuntu up to speed.

That's true, I had to downgrade Unison on my Debian sid machine to be
able to synchronise files between and my Breezy boxen. Also, the 2.10.2
that's in Breezy can't diff properly.

Can backport requests go to this list, or are forums the only approved
interface (I can't bring myself to use forums on a regular basis...)?

FWIW, here is a list of packages from Dapper and Debian I use:

dosage 1.5.5-1.0~0shot1  (from Debian sid, lessened build-deps)
gtodo 0.14+cvs20050820-1 (Dapper's .deb)
mc 4.6.1-1ubuntu2        (Dapper's .deb)
phppgadmin 3.5.6-1       (Dapper's .deb; Breezy's has stupid dependencies)
wesnoth 1.0.1-1          (Dapper's .deb)
xmoto 0.1.8-2~0shot1     (required a rebuild against Breezy's gcc)

Cheers,
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