On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 11:28 +0100, James Westby wrote: > On Thu Sep 03 10:35:51 +0100 2009 William Grant wrote: > > This sounds like it could be conveniently worked into the feature to > > build packages from branches, as that has to do all that and more. > > Does it? > > I think the current expectation is that you prepare your upload, push to > LP and request the build, which then uses the content verbatim. > > I'm not sure we want to get in to asking the user for changelog entries > and the like when they request a build. > > My only concern with that is that it doesn't necessarily fail fast. The > user will request the build, and then get a mail telling them that > the target distribution 'UNRELEASED' is unknown or something similar. > > I agree that it could be useful to have these things automated in some > cases, but I'm not sure it's a requirement to have build-from-branch. Not a requirement, no, but it requires much of the same infrastructure. Once build-from-branch exists, LP will have a facility to build source packages itself in a secure environment, which would probably be rather easy to extend to this.
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