more debian (and other) packaging of plugins?

[Reinhard Tartler]

"Martin Pool" <mbp at sourcefrog.net> writes:

> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> wrote:
>> "Debian Packages
>>
>> Bazaar releases are regularly packaged into sid/unstable. Backports for
>> stable are made available a bit later on backports.org."
>
> I feel we've been doing reasonably well at getting bzr and bzrtools
> releases into the Launchpad PPA fairly quickly, but we could take this
> a bit further:
>
>  * packaging more plugins (either individually or as a big bundle bzr-plugins?)

This would imply that each time a plugin is updated we need to reupload
all plugins. Moreover we would need some way to sort bugreports among
the plugins there.

No real objections, rather thoughts.


>  * perhaps using this as a way to check for plugin breakage as part of
> the release process, particularly for plugins that are stable and not
> being very actively developed

Indeed.

>  * sharing more of this effort between Debian and Ubuntu, and maybe
> making it more consistent with Fedora and other systems
>
> Any ideas?

How about granting more developers access to the bzr PPA? I think at
least the pkg-bazaar packaging group on alioth should have, but I don't
see any particular reason to not also allow all motus to upload there.

Moreover I'd like to see the packaging branches for the pkg-bazaar group
packages shared with the PPA packages. They are currently hosted on
bzr.debian.org, and I could imagine that we can mirror them on launchpad.

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