Which distroseries should the Daily Builds PPA target?

[Max Bowsher]

> 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.

On 25/07/12 10:28, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> 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.

OOI, who do you see as the expected audience for such builds?

Max.


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