Please sync python-protobuf 2.0.0~b-3 (universe) from Debian unstable (main).

Does not appear to have been acked by a member of ubuntu-universe-sponsors; unsubscribing ubuntu-archive and setting back to 'new'.

Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SyncRequestProcess for explanation of this procedure.

Hi Steve! Yeah, I read that page. I used the requestsync tool described on that page to create this report. It seems to be fairly buggy ;-) Thanks for subscribing ubuntu-universe sponsors.

FWIW, I've got this package building in a PPA here: http://launchpad.net/ubunet-hackers/+archive, I had to move python-support from Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends in order to get amd64 and lpia builds to succeed in the PPA.

Anything else that I can do to help with this? I like helping.

We're in Feature Freeze now: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess#FeatureFreeze%20for%20new%20packages

Subscribing motu-release.

I'd like to get this into main rather than universe. What's the process for doing that?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMainInclusionRequirements

Steve, why is it important to you for this to be in main?

This looks reasonable enough, and has my ack for addition.

[Updating] protobuf (0 [Ubuntu] < 2.0.0~b-3 [Debian])
 * Trying to add protobuf...
  - <protobuf_2.0.0~b-3.dsc: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
  - <protobuf_2.0.0~b-3.diff.gz: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
  - <protobuf_2.0.0~b.orig.tar.gz: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>

@mdz: The online services team at Canonical is using this library. For packages in main "Security updates are provided for them as necessary by Canonical". I would like Canonical to provide security updates for this package.

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:32:32AM -0000, Steve Alexander wrote:
> @mdz: The online services team at Canonical is using this library. For
> packages in main "Security updates are provided for them as necessary by
> Canonical". I would like Canonical to provide security updates for this
> package.

Let's take this part of the conversation out of the bug. This is a sync
request to get python-protobuf into Ubuntu (universe) and is closed now.

--
 - mdz

Looking at the requirements for inclusion in Main, I don't see that that fits:

Rationale: There must be a certain level of demand for the package, for
example:
 The package is useful for a large part of our user base.
 The package is a new build dependency or dependency of a package that we
 already support.
 The package replaces another package we currently support and promises higher
  quality and/or better features, so that we can drop the old package from the
 supported set.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMainInclusionRequirements

Packages in Universe receive community support and security updates. I'd
welcome the online services team at Canonical to be part of that community.

Unsubscribing motu-release since the decision to add the package post-freeze has already been taken.