On Debian/Ubuntu bzr packages

[Martin Pool]

(top-posting for reference since the original message was a while ago.)

So, everything Adeodato says below makes good sense to me.  I'm not
quite clear on concretely what you want to do though: how will we
coordinate your packages with getting packages for Ubuntu, and how can
we make sure someone else can step up if you cannot do a particular
release, without wasted work?

(ps, I hope you enjoy good health in this new year.)



On 22/12/2007, Adeodato Simó <dato at net.com.org.es> wrote:
> Hello. Sorry that I arrive late to the discussion and opening a new
> thread. I missed the original discussion for being busy with RL matters.
>
> I just wanted to pop in to make one point clear: it is my intention to
> keep on uploading shortly after each upstream release you make (rc and
> final) packages of bzr to debian unstable, and I can personally not
> foresee any problems with doing so during the freeze as well: they'll
> just not migrate to testing anymore (and if any problems arise, there is
> always the possibility of uploading to experimental).
>
> What I mean is, that at least as long as I'm around, there should be a
> constant availability of source packages from which to derive Ubuntu
> packages for prior releases (prior to hardy in this case), both rc and
> final releases.
>
> Robert, I hope this addresses your concerns about that flow stopping at
> some point, like it happened last year. I thought I'd mention once and
> for all, since it gets tiresome to always read the same concerns, when
> precisely I'm planning on not letting that happen. (FWIW it wouldn't
> have happened last year either, should I not have been unavailable for
> health reasons.)
>
>                                  * * *
>
> Regarding PPA, I'll just note MHO that I think it would be very good to
> open the possibility to make bzr uploads for Ubuntu to a slightly wider
> group of people, since that could mean having the packages available
> faster with less pressure for specific people. And, with my plans for
> Debian above explained, those uploads to PPA could be made by mostly
> anybody (mostly a matter of editing the changelog, if I'm not mistaken).
>
> If any problems with those builds arise from a packaging POV, I'd be
> happy to receive a ping and make the necessary changes in the Debian
> packaging to aid building in Ubuntu, or else, which the changelog shows
> I'm keen on.
>
> Regarding Debian stable releases not being covered by PPA, as mentioned
> elsewhere in the threads, those should be covered by backports.org, to
> where I'm uploading regularly as soon as bzr migrates to testing.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
> Debian Developer                                  adeodato at debian.org
>
> - I love you, Shirley, I'm not ashamed to say.
> - If you love me, then you'll want me to be happy. Even if I'm not with you.
> - I don't love you *that* much.
>                 -- Denny Crane and Shirley Schmidt
>
>


-- 
Martin