Hi Elliot, Great, thanks for all the info. I guess I must have been lazy doing my research this time, though I did not know that the package manager is called Soyuz - might have helped! Thanks again. Will Elliot Murphy wrote: > I was researching this just a couple of days ago. The new format is > enabled in launchpad now: > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/293106 > > The only thing that I have found that doesn't yet support the new > formats in the entire ecosystem around debian and ubuntu is > svn-buildpackage, which is used on the debian python team and some > other teams. There is a patch to svn-buildpackage waiting to be > applied for about 2 weeks now that enables the new formats: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388567#51 > > I have very recently started using the new format (a couple days ago) > with packages stored in both svn and the new bzr ubuntu distributed > development branches and have not run into any problems yet. > > These two pages were very helpful for me in figuring out how to use > the new format and how to use quilt: > http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0 > http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/howto/quilt.html > > Good luck! > > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Will Daniels <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Just wondering if the quilt package format is, or is going to be, >> supported in Launchpad's build system any time soon? I first tried it >> back in May and the rejection message then said: >> >> Rejected: foo.dsc: Format is not 1.0. This is incompatible with dpkg-source. >> >> I tried again today and got: >> >> Rejected: foo.dsc: format '3.0 (quilt)' is not permitted in karmic. >> >> Does that mean it *is* supported in some later distro series like lucid >> then? Thought it best to ask rather than just upload and see like I >> normally do :D >> >> My googling hasn't turned up any discussion of the subject but is there >> a bug/wishlist item filed somewhere about this? >> >> Cheers, >> Will >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users >> Post to : launchpad-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > >
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