Re: suggestions for PPA

["Celso Providelo" <celso.providelo@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/1/07, Ondrej Certik <ondrej@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>

Hi Ondrej

> the PPA on dogfood works very well. I have some suggestions:
>
> 1) The front page looks like this:
>
> Packages
>
>     * 1 Sources (21.6 MiB)
>     * 2 Binaries (1.4 MiB)
>     * Estimated archive size: 23.0 MiB
>
> Browse the archive in http://ppa.dogfood.launchpad.net/ondrej-certik.
>
> ...
>
> and I think there should be a line I should put in my sources.list, like this:
>
> Packages
>
>     * 1 Sources (21.6 MiB)
>     * 2 Binaries (1.4 MiB)
>     * Estimated archive size: 23.0 MiB
>
> Browse the archive in http://ppa.dogfood.launchpad.net/ondrej-certik.
>
> deb     http://ppa.dogfood.launchpad.net/ondrej-certik/ubuntu gutsy
> main restricted universe multiverse
> deb-src http://ppa.dogfood.launchpad.net/ondrej-certik/ubuntu gutsy
> main restricted universe multiverse
>
>
> (I know I can find the lines at
> https://help.launchpad.net/PPAQuickStart, but first I need to click
> somewhere and then I need to edit <LP_NAME> and <development release>
> anyway, so it would be nice if I could just copy & paste the line)

Right, I see you point, this text was part of the first prototypes and ended up
being removed due to the lack of space in the page (sources list required
scrolling even in empty pages).

Anyway, feel free to file a bug about it.

Bear in mind that we are going to have a much more efficient way to install
PPA packages than copy & paste sources.list contents soon:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AptFirefoxFileHandler

> 2) Would you consider building against Debian unstable as well? :) I
> myself am using Debian, and contribute my packages to Debian unstable
> (and they will get to gutsy automatically), so from the Ubuntu point
> of view there is no difference, but unfortunately it is a huge
> difference for me. Maybe it could be done in a way, that I'll just
> upload my Debian package the same way I would do to unstable, and it
> will build it against unstable and then automatically "sync" it and
> build the ubuntu package as well, the same way it works for official
> Debian packages.

We won't be able to build Debian packages in the short/mid-term.

> 3) Is there some info in the PPAQuickStart how I can remove the
> package from the archive? (I didn't find it)

Coming soon, https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/128127


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Celso Providelo <celso.providelo@xxxxxxxxx>