testtools and subunit in the ~bzr PPA

[Max Bowsher]

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.

Done.

> 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.

Done.

> 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.

I'm not going to do this now, since subunit/hardy needed extra
modifications anyway.

Max.

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