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Re: Is this ppa now dead?

 

You're welcome! I sadly don't have as much time for emacs as I used to
but I happen to be on vacation so I can give it some love.

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:11 AM, Thomas Christensen
<christensenthomas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks guys.
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 2:21 AM Reinhard Tartler <siretart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for this!
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016, 14:56 Robert Park <robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 7:15 PM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Maybe we should build from git now?
>>>
>>>
>>> Launchpad's git support is incomplete (you can host git repos, and you
>>> can build recipes from git repos, but you can't auto-mirror git repos
>>> from other hosts).
>>>
>>> Upon further inspection, the importer seems to be in a bad way indeed:
>>>
>>> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/266425695/rbose-vcs-imports-emacs-trunk.log
>>>
>>> That looks to me like some serious bit-rot and not something that
>>> rbose is going to have the power to fix (eg this requires code fixes
>>> directly in launchpad, and I doubt anybody will care to do it seeing
>>> as bzr is dead).
>>>
>>> So as a stop-gap until launchpad supports mirroring git repos, I've
>>> created a little script that just sort of force-imports git and
>>> commits it to bzr. It doesn't preserve the commit history but you
>>> don't need that for the daily package build anyway. Here's the script:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~cupstream2distro-maintainers/bileto/trunk/view/head:/scripts/import.sh
>>>
>>> And if all goes well, in a few hours (scheduled for 1AM UTC) you
>>> should see the branch appear here:
>>>
>>> https://code.launchpad.net/~ci-train-bot/emacs/imported
>>>
>>> At which point I'll trigger new builds of the recipe based on that and
>>> things should go back to their daily selves.
>>>
>>> --
>>> robru



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robru


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