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On 12/02/2013 08:20 PM, Chuck Short wrote:
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>
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> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net 
> <mailto:sean at dague.net>> wrote:
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>     On 12/02/2013 06:15 PM, Adam Young wrote:
>     > In order to provide Devstack a better certificate management
>     example, we
>     > want to make devstack capable of calling Certmaster.
>     >
>     > This package is in Debian, but not in Ubuntu.
>     >
>     > For example
>     > http://packages.debian.org/experimental/certmaster
>     >
>     > How does one go about installing a package like this for
>     devstack? Do we
>     > need to get it into the underlying distro, or is a cross distro
>     install
>     > acceptable?
>     >
>     > I've tested it by hand and it install and works fine when
>     > pre-installed.  Its just a distribution problem.
>
>     That means it works, right now. But not being in the distro means
>     there
>     are no guaruntees of it working in the future.
>
>     Honestly, at this point I'd -1 an add like this. I think pulling a
>     package out of experimental is not really inspiring confidence. I'd
>     suggest looking for a package available in Ubuntu natively.
>

Yeah, wasn't suggesting we do that long term, just pointing out that it 
is a release issue, not a current code issue.

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>             -Sean
>
>
> Hi,
>
> So the way that the package syncs works from Debian to Ubuntu is that 
> a package usually moves from Experimental->Unstable->Testing, Ubuntu 
> usually picks the package up in Unstable and gets placed in Universe 
> (usually). However that doesnt mean that the package will hit the 
> cloud archive as well.
How does a package make these transitions?  Certmaster has been in 
Experimental since 2009.

>
> Regards
> chuck
>
>
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