On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 18:38 +1100, Martin Pool wrote: > I've just put a Bazaar package up to be built in a PPA. > Congratulations to the PPA developers, it seems like a pretty cool > service. The quick start guide is also pretty nice. > > I've a few questions that are not answered, or clearly answered up there: > > 1- If I want my package to be built for several Ubuntu releases, how > is that supposed to work? I guess I need to make several uploads? > Should I have several packages with the same name, or should I append > eg ~feisty1? Yes, that's what you should do, but it is not enough. What I do is this: * Add universe/blah to the Section(s) in debian/control. (No luck trying with multiverse, but I haven't found a explicit warning about these though, so my vmware-package crossport ended up in main, unsightly even if it didn't work for some reason I have found time to debug). * You need to define the ubuntu version in debian/changelog. * something like ~ppaXX[+~]ubuversionWW in debian/changelog would do the trick nicely. * If you already have uploaded the source, you don't need to add it to the following source uploads. (I know you already know most of this, but some list readers, well.. Don't :-)). > Opinions vary: [IRC conversation elided...] *Sigh* Most of the time I feel that asking for help in IRC is like asking the Pope about contraception, when you really need it. -- Pinky: "Gee Brain, what do you want to do tonight?" The Brain: "The same thing we do every night, Pinky - Try to take over the world!"
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