Which distroseries should the Daily Builds PPA target?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 09:20:51AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Currently, the Daily Builds PPA attempts to target all distroseries from
> lucid onwards, which haven't been removed from Launchpad's recipe
> offering due to EOL (i.e. maverick).
> 
> But, the Daily Builds PPA isn't exactly in good shape, and even the main
> 'bzr' package itself has been failing to build there for a while.
> 
> I'd like to propose that we drop lucid and natty support in the Daily
> Builds PPA, leaving it with just oneiric and precise.
> 
> Part of the motivation is because natty is currently where backport pain
> currently tends to start; but also, it seems fairly unlikely that people
> would want to run daily builds on something older than the current LTS
> or current or previous normal release.
I'd rather keep lucid and natty around, at least for the moment.

Fixing them isn't *that* hard, it's just that nobody has spent the 30
to 60 minutes doing so, and it'll be a lot harder to add them back later if
they are removed.

Cheers,

Jelmer