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Re: My PPA experience



> > Even when I'm uploading them in the right order, eg uploading mythtv
> > before mythplugins, it'll sometimes build mythplugins before mythtv.
> > Could this be changed?
> > Alternatively, the PPAs could have a smarter approach to resolving
> > build-dependency. When two packages are upload, where one build-depends
> > on the other one, build and publish the build-dependency first. Since my
> > uploads are often queued for quite some time, this should be possible.
>
> Well, this is an interesting question.
> We do prioritize builds according their dependencies, but in your
> case, you build-depend on *any* version of mythpluging and this is
> obviously satisfied even when both new versions show up at the same
> time.
> My suggestion is to build-depended on specific version if that's what
> you want, but I understand that it will require extra work on the
> packaging side.

Well, the package shouldn't build-depends on something, that it cannot
build with. So it's a bug in the package IMHO, not PPA.

Ondrej




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