Bazaar .deb packaging through PPAs - pros and cons

[Robert Collins]

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 09:47 +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> 
> Since I wrote that, I have got most of the packages rebuild at least
> on grumpy, and in the ppa.  As a person with some but not a great deal
> of Debian packaging experience, I found it noticeably easier than
> maintaining the archive myself.

I'd just like to note that its a lot easier for me to not use ppa's
today - the lack of control requires much more roundtripping to build
the entire set of things we package because of the chain of build
dependencies & latency, and as such a much higher cognitive cost. I
don't think this is fixable in the short term, and probably is not even
on the roadmap to be fixed - we're deep into the whole basic mechanism
of how the process works, what it needs to do and how. This is different
to the other issues w.r.t. PPA's which have to do with what the bzr
project needs.

When I'm back I'm very happy to continue doing packages as they were, or
for someone else to package via PPA's.

Or we can mix and use PPA's for releases and not for daily builds [which
are still on my todo list].

-Rob
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