launchpad-dev team mailing list archive

[Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 02, 2010, at 05:09 PM, James Westby wrote:

>If you have an archive with users, deleting that archive and then
>uploading a package with a lower version that before will mean that
>only new users get that package. This may be suprising.
>
>Not that it's necessarily a reason to prevent anyone from doing it, but
>this is an example of why archive management isn't always obvious to
>those inexperienced in it.

Yep.  I think PPAs are *usually* used to provide packages to users.  In my
case, I'm using them primarily as a kind of test build farm of a subset of the
archive.  This has other problems though (e.g. overwhelming the build
machines) so while it's convenient, it might not be exactly the right (or
typical) use of the resources, even though you and Julian keep insisting it's
okay :).

-Barry

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: PGP signature