[Bug 1069867] Re: syncpackage picks up too many changelog versions when the target is -proposed

[Stefano Rivera]

** Description changed:

- raring is likely to start requiring that packages be uploaded to
- -proposed by default.  When syncpackage is used with "-r raring-
- proposed", it picks up far too many changelog versions:
+ == SRU ==
+ 
+ [IMPACT]
+ Synpackage didn't understand that the proposed pocket was partial archive on top of release, and generated incorrect changelogs.
+ Syncing to -proposed is now the default, so we should handle it correctly.
+ 
+ [Test Case]
+ File syncs against an existing package. It should correlctly report the new changelog entries, rather than displaying the entire history.
+ 
+ [Regression Potential]
+ Fairly simple patch, affecting syncpackage and requestsync.
+ 
+ == Bug Report ==
+ raring is likely to start requiring that packages be uploaded to -proposed by default.  When syncpackage is used with "-r raring-proposed", it picks up far too many changelog versions:
  
  syncpackage: Source abcde -> raring/Proposed: not in Ubuntu, new version 2.5.4-1
  syncpackage: New changes:
  abcde (2.5.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
  
-   * New upstream release with bug fixes.
-     + Update GPL/FSF headers to match current versions. Thanks to vskytta
-       for the patch. (Closes issue 69).
-     + Fix the command line for ID3SYNTAX=eyed3. Thanks to neil.gm.richards
-       for the patch. Closes issue 50.
-     + Switch to eyed3 by default for MP3 tagging, as it looks to do UTF-8
-       tagging better. Closes issue 22 (hopefully)
-   * Remove the "A " from the beginning of the description to fix a
-     lintian warning
+   * New upstream release with bug fixes.
+     + Update GPL/FSF headers to match current versions. Thanks to vskytta
+       for the patch. (Closes issue 69).
+     + Fix the command line for ID3SYNTAX=eyed3. Thanks to neil.gm.richards
+       for the patch. Closes issue 50.
+     + Switch to eyed3 by default for MP3 tagging, as it looks to do UTF-8
+       tagging better. Closes issue 22 (hopefully)
+   * Remove the "A " from the beginning of the description to fix a
+     lintian warning
  
-  -- Steve McIntyre <93sam at debian.org>  Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:22:28 +0100
+  -- Steve McIntyre <93sam at debian.org>  Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:22:28 +0100
  
  abcde (2.5.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
  
-   * New upstream release with lots of bug fixes.
+   * New upstream release with lots of bug fixes.
  [...]
  
  The previous version in raring was 2.5.3-1.  syncpackage should look in
  the release pocket if there isn't anything in proposed.

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  syncpackage picks up too many changelog versions when the target is
  -proposed

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