Uploading bzr-1.5rc1 to the launchpad ppa

[John Arbash Meinel]

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James Westby wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 18:25 +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
>> Right.  That's the solution used for the 1.4 final packages so that
>> they could upgrade the 1.4rc1 packages (which were accidentally called
>> 1.4rc1 rather than 1.4~rc1).  I was pointing out that the same mistake
>> had been made for the 1.5rc1 packages.
> 
> Should this be put in to the documentation for building the packages?
> It should avoid the problem for further versions.

It is in the documentation, but I guess it just hasn't happened yet. I
was following the docs, but I wasn't able to build the package.

I'm guessing Martin just followed the example from 1.4rc1 (which is
obviously slightly incorrect).

I don't know if we can just build new packages at 1.5~rc1 and get the
launchpad PPA to accept them. (It might refuse because it thinks they
are older, I don't really know.)


> 
> John, the failure you were seeing was because you didn't have "quilt"
> installed. This should be a Build-Depends, so it should have not
> allowed you to build without it. If it does allow you to build then
> documenting it would be a good idea (and might be anyway).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James

I also needed 'fastimport' and 'cdbs' to be installed. but I had figured
those out. (Basically it failed not finding something with that name, so
I did apt-get install...). Is there a way for debuild to give a nice
error of "missing package XXX to build this"? If so, then the debian/
directories available from:

  lp:~bzr/bzr/packaging-dapper

etc.

John
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