Rev 5331: (jameinel) a couple of doc cleanups about the ppa (Martin Pool) in file:///home/pqm/archives/thelove/bzr/%2Btrunk/

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revno: 5331 [merge]
revision-id: pqm at pqm.ubuntu.com-20100703000054-331rh98r3u7s211l
parent: pqm at pqm.ubuntu.com-20100702224400-o0b4bj0efc5scb5p
parent: mbp at sourcefrog.net-20100630041136-ncpf1euxzlg3jsyw
committer: Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager <pqm at pqm.ubuntu.com>
branch nick: +trunk
timestamp: Sat 2010-07-03 01:00:54 +0100
message:
  (jameinel) a couple of doc cleanups about the ppa (Martin Pool)
modified:
  doc/developers/ppa.txt         ppa.txt-20080722055539-606u7t2z32t3ae4w-1
=== modified file 'doc/developers/ppa.txt'
--- a/doc/developers/ppa.txt	2009-12-02 20:34:07 +0000
+++ b/doc/developers/ppa.txt	2010-06-30 04:11:36 +0000
@@ -13,13 +13,13 @@
 
   __ https://help.launchpad.net/PPAQuickStart
 
-As of June 2008, there are three PPAs:
+As of June 2010, there are three PPAs:
 
 <https://launchpad.net/~bzr/+archive>
-    Final released versions.
+    Final released versions and updates.
 
 <https://launchpad.net/~bzr-beta-ppa/+archive>
-    Releases and release candidates.
+    Beta releases.
 
 <https://launchpad.net/~bzr-nightly-ppa/+archive>
     Automatic nightly builds from trunk.
@@ -27,13 +27,16 @@
 We build packages for every supported Ubuntu release
 <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases>.  Packages need no longer be updated
 when the release passes end-of-life because all users should
-have upgraded by then.  (As of May 2008, Edgy Eft is no longer supported.)
+have upgraded by then.  
 
-We build a distinct package for each distrorelease.  As of bzr 1.5, Dapper
-uses ``python-support`` and later distributions use ``python-central``.
+We build a distinct package for each distrorelease.  
 If you upload a release-specific version, you should add a suffix to the
 package version, e.g. ``bzr.1.3-1~bazaar1~dapper1``.
 
+Dapper uses the ``python-support`` framework and later distributions use
+``python-central``.  This has little effect on everyday packaging but does
+mean that some of the control files are quite different.
+
 Every package is first uploaded into the beta ppa.  For final release
 versions it is also copied to the main PPA.