bzr ubuntu packaging

[Martin Pool]

On 27 May 2010 16:02, Russel Winder <russel at russel.org.uk> wrote:
> So either the PPA has to keep an up to date and consistent set of all
> packages involved in the distribution or there is no point as far as a
> user such as myself is concerned.  This may be seen as too much effort,
> but on the other hand it makes making things ready for the next Ubuntu
> distribution almost trivially easy.

In this plan we're emphasing the nightly PPA and then official
packaging; other PPAs are distinctly less useful than that.

If something is packaged in Ubuntu we should also build it from its
trunk in the nightly PPA, so that just by following that you will
follow the tip of everything.  It's possible you will get some
breakage either to do with API skew or other things in the nightly --
finding this is the point of testing, but it should not be too high.
In official packaging obviously the packages must also be consistent.

https://edge.launchpad.net/~bzr-nightly-ppa/+archive/ppa doesn't cover
everything packaged in Ubuntu so I guess we should either add more or
mention individual projects' nightly ppas.

If you hit bugs in the PPA, including cases where they conflict with
what's in Ubuntu, please file bugs (after checking they're not already
known), preferably with the subject including the actual exception or
error.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>