Bazaar Daily Builds

[Jelmer Vernooij]

For a while I've been trying out the Launchpad daily builds on a bunch
of Bazaar packages. 

A PPA with these packages is here:

https://launchpad.net/~jelmer/+archive/bzr-dailies

The packages included are:

 * bzr
 * bzr-builddeb
 * bzr-email
 * bzr-explorer
 * bzr-fastimport
 * bzr-git
 * bzr-grep
 * bzr-gtk
 * bzr-hg
 * bzr-loom
 * bzr-pipeline
 * bzr-pqm
 * bzr-rewrite
 * bzr-search
 * bzr-stats
 * bzr-svn
 * bzr-upload
 * bzr-webdav
 * bzr-xmloutput
 * bzrtools
 * loggerhead
 * python-fastimport
 * qbzr
 * trac-bzr

One of the reasons I haven't done this as part of ~bzr is that I wasn't
sure if I would be able to keep these working and I don't want to create
any false expectations about them being around in the future.

These recipes all merge two or three branches:

* upstream branch (not for "native" packages such as bzr-builddeb)
* debian packaging branch (from
http://bzr.debian.org/pkg-bazaar/../unstable, but imported to Launchpad)
* A trivial branch which switches the Debian source format from "3.0
(quilt)" to "3.0 (native)". This is to work around bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-code/+bug/614768

Since we use the Debian branch it is almost never necessary to touch
these recipes themselves. I was quite surprised by how well this works.
I receive a couple of success emails every night (for the projects for
which the trunk was updated) and an occasional build failure that I fix
by updating the Debian branch (which means less work the next time I
have to upload to Debian).

There were a couple of bugs that I ran into that I've filed reports for,
but overall it's working quite well.

I'm not sure what the current policy is in the Bazaar team as to what
PPA's are maintained. I certainly don't want to make the maintainance
overhead worse by adding more PPA's to maintain, but I'd be happy to
change the ownership of these recipes to ~bzr if that would be useful.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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