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Re: Copy packages to same PPA, different distro



On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles
<pgquiles@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Quoting Celso Providelo <celso.providelo@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> [...]
>>>
>>> - Automatically copying packages between two PPAs. For instance, for
>>> Zumastor we have two PPAs, zumastor-team and zumastor-releases. Everytime
>>> a
>>> svn commit is done to the Zumastor repository, a package is built and
>>> published to the zumastor-team PPA. On the other hand, only the stable
>>> releases are published to the zumastor-releases PPA (ATM, manually copied
>>> from zumastor-team). Automating this would make life easier.
>>
>> Interesting setup, it seems to be the adopted pattern for all
>> Product-related PPAs, development & release.
>>
>> Are you imagining something kind of programmatic way to trigger the
>> copies once you are happy with QA ? a API ?
>
> I've forward this e-mail to Will Nowak, who is in charge of the script which
> automates package building of Zumastor. He knows better than me. One thing
> he'd surely like to have is an RSS feed of the packages a PPA publishes
> (currently for Zumastor we are scraping).

RSS feeds would be a great improvement.

>>> - Automatically building a package for more than one release (in the same
>>> PPA or in a different one). For instance, I may want to build my package
>>> for
>>> Gutsy, Hardy and Intrepid. ATM, either I manually copy the package (which
>>> does not work) or I upload the source three times (which is a PITA)
>>
>> Right, propagating source & binaries once they are built ...
>>
>> That's indeed a good idea. Can you file a bug about it, please ?
>
> I've filed bug #235064. This could be as easy as supporting the Debian
> Policy as stated in
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-dpkgchangelog (it
> says you can specify several distro releases in the debian/changelog file)

Good catch, thank you.

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