Which distroseries should the Daily Builds PPA target?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 09:56:45AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> On 25/07/12 11:06, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:44:29AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> >>> 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?

> > I don't have a clear idea of who might be using those packages. In
> > the past we've had people ask about broken daily builds for older
> > distroseries, so I'd rather err on the side of caution.

> But we're not erring on the side of caution; we aren't even putting in
> the effort to fix the precise daily build of bzr itself, despite it
> being broken for over a month.

> I think we need to scale back the scope of what we're trying to do with
> the daily ppa so we can keep up with maintaining it in good working order.

> Unless someone can speak up with having an actual use case for daily
> builds on ancient Ubuntu series, why should we bother sinking resources
> into them?

It does seem silly to try to build them even if we're aware they're
broken. Perhaps we can just disable them rather than remove them completely, to
make it easier to re-enable them later.

Cheers,

Jelmer