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[Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/23/2014 09:42 AM, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On 12.06.2014 17:58, Jamie Strandboge wrote:
>> On 06/11/2014 11:38 AM, David Barth wrote:
>>> Le 11/06/2014 18:25, Martin Albisetti a écrit :
>>>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> An idea I had was to make click-reviewers-tools entirely self-contained.
>>>>> Ie, it
>>>>> ships the policy files in its own click-reviewers-tools directory along
>>>>> with all
>>>>> the frameworks it wants to support. This does add a maintenance burden, but I
>>>>> don't think too much. We could automate slurping in the bits we embed in the
>>>>> package. This has a lot of benefits:
>>>>>    * it works easily with the SDK (they don't need a separate chroot)
>>>>>    * we don't have to install different frameworks on the machine doing the
>>>>>      reviewing
>>>>>    * we don't have to install new apparmor policy and/or apparmor on the
>>>>> machine
>>>>>      doing the reviewing
>>>>>    * SRUs or -backports are pretty simple
>>>>>    * the automated reviews machine can stay on an LTS
>>>> Big +1 from me.
>>> Same here. Right now you can't prepare / review a new package on a Trusty
>>> install, and that's really odd.
>>>
>> Right, we all agree which is why Daniel started this conversation. :)
>>
>>
>>> Is there a branch to test that implements some of this?
>>>
>> Not yet-- since we are in agreement, I'll take an action to do it and document
>> how to update the packaging and when (ie, I won't do the automated slurping
>> now). I have a couple of high priority items to get to first, but will get to
>> this hopefully next week.
> 
> Shall I file a bug for this?
> 
Sure, it is on my todo list-- just getting to some other stuff before RTM right now.


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Jamie Strandboge                 http://www.ubuntu.com/

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