getting packages into Ubuntu during Debian freeze
Solution 1:
I needed to request a package sync.
The information for how to do this is located here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SyncRequestProcess
I followed the recomendations there and used the requestsync commandline tools as follows:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-dev-tools
requestsync -d experimental widemargin
This raised a bug request on launchpad which can be seen here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/widemargin/+bug/1146015
The bug was fixed within 3 hours by Julian Taylor (jtaylor) who uploaded it to ubuntu 13.04
Julian Taylor you ROCK!!!
That is all.