testtools and subunit in the ~bzr PPA (ping for comments)

[Max Bowsher]

Hi,

No one commented on the below yet. Is that an indication that we don't
really need testtools and subunit in the ~bzr PPA? Or perhaps that I've
wandered off into packaging esoterica beyond the scope most people here
are interested in? :-)

It would be good to have someone else second my intentions regarding a
notional ~bzr/builddeps PPA, before we get it created.

Max.


On 26/08/10 07:58, Max Bowsher wrote:
> I've been trying to update testtools and subunit in ~bzr/proposed. I've
> succeeded for everything except subunit in hardy.
> 
> The sticking points are two in number:
> 
> 1) I need the debhelper 7 from hardy-backports to be available.
> 
> 2) I need the Debian::Debhelper::Sequence::python_central support hook,
> which isn't in hardy's python-central.
> 
> 
> Point 1 is easily solved by changing the PPA's build dependencies to
> include the Ubuntu backports pocket. But, that's a rather sweeping
> change which doesn't just bring in a newer debhelper, nor does it only
> apply to hardy. Therefore I have an alternate proposal: activate a
> ~bzr/builddeps PPA, and copy just the hardy-backports/debhelper there
> from the primary archive, and depend on that.
> 
> 
> Point 2 is easily, if unusually, solved by then uploading a custom
> package which just installs the
> /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Sequence/python_central.pm file
> borrowed from intrepid's python-central on hardy.
> 
> 
> Is everyone OK with me doing the above?
> 
> 
> Additional possible extension: But, if I instead of copying the
> debhelper from hardy-backports to hardy, I instead upload a custom
> backport of debhelper 7.2.x to hardy and jaunty, then the current
> subunit source package from sid would build without modifications.
> 
> Would anyone dislike that idea?

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