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[Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 09:15 -0400, Curtis Hovey wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 23:17 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > Recipes are very useful for doing regular builds from a combination
> > of 
> > multiple branches into a PPA (like daily builds). They're less 
> > appropriate for manual builds into an archive. 
> Is this feature just about source package branches? They are only
> branches that I know that are guaranteed to have a debian/ directory.
It's not technically tied to package branches, although most branches
with a debian/ directory would be package branches. 

Like with a recipe that doesn't create a debian/ directory, if you
request a build of a branch without a proper debian/ directory that
build would simply fail.

> Is the goal just to rebuild a package in an archive to ensure deps are
> met and that build links to changed binaries?
The main use case is allowing people to prepare a package branch and to
immediately get that built, rather than having to locally create a
source package and dput that.

The other LEP that I mentioned discusses doing this for the main archive
too, so Ubuntu developers can simply update a bzr branch to upload to
the primary archive.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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