bzr 1.3 in ppa; plugins still need updates

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On So, 2008-03-30 at 20:36 +0200, Christian Tschabuschnig wrote:
> James Westby wrote:
> > I can work on something that automates the easy bit of grabbing
> > the new tarball and updating debian/changelog, building the source
> > package and uploading each to the PPA, then it would just be a case
> > of fixing any build failures.
> > 
> > Alternatively there are many people in #bzr with the skills to do
> > this, so when it is time to upload perhaps we could share the work
> > out and do it that way.
> 
> If there are several people working on interdependent packages there
> could be a PPA open for the whole bzr-team where everyone can do his/her
> work and one official PPA that get's updated by the release manager with
> all packages at the same time when it's known that all packages will
> build correctly.
> 
> While PPA is building packages there still might be a (short) period of
> time, where the packages are inconsistent. It would be a useful
> launchpad feature to hold back packages until the desired dependencies
> are fulfilled. But even for now it would be better to have an unusable
> repository for five or ten minutes than for a few days.
That's really just a workaround for a problem caused by PPA. 

APT can deal with multiple versions of packages just fine, but PPA
removes older versions. For example, if the latest version of bzrtools
available only works with bzr 1.2 but the latest bzr available was 1.3,
apt would install bzr 1.2 and warn you it's not upgrading bzr.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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