Frequently Asked Questions

Things upstreams ask us[1]:

• My software is in an old Ubuntu release, why don't you guys update it? It's old and I'm getting bug reports, but you won't update it! Argh!
• What's the best way of telling an Ubuntu maintainer to cherry pick a git/hg commit for something that needs to be fixed in a stable package?
• You patched something I don't like and it's causing me grief in my bug tracker, whom can I talk to resolve this?
• I accidentally found my project in Launchpad and stumbled on patches and bug reports I didn't know about, why didn't anyone tell upstream?
• I want to get my software in Debian too, do you guys do that?
• MOTUs aren't reviewing my packages fast enough, I am trying to get into Ubuntu, what can I do?

[1] Ok things they ask me, but I figure it's a good place to start.