PPA for "0.6" release of Juju?
Clint Byrum
clint at ubuntu.com
Tue Sep 18 21:58:05 UTC 2012
Excerpts from Clint Byrum's message of 2012-09-17 15:42:38 -0700:
> Hi all. Up until now, we've relied on a single PPA for juju to use when
> juju-origin: ppa is used.
>
> However, at this point we are starting to see some production usage of
> juju, and this becomes a huge problem for development, unless PPA is
> treated as an experiment only. I think its hard to tell, as a user,
> that the PPA option could potentially break everything though, so it
> would be better if we took steps to make it stable and useful.
>
> I'd like to propose that we create a new PPA for each release of python
> juju. We've already created the 0.5 PPA, which will be used with the
> upcoming 0.5.2 release so that 0.5.x users don't get all of the new
> changes pulled into trunk. It strikes me that 0.6 should be treated the
> same way, and only get "released" versions of 0.6 when using the PPA.
>
> The way I propose to do this is to change the PPA in-use to a 0.6 PPA in a
> new 0.6 series branch that will at first track trunk until release day and
> then only receive commits that are part of a 0.6.x series release. Trunk
> will continue to point to ppa:juju/pkgs which will of course be built
> from tip.
>
> This would also mean that we repeat this whenever a minor version bump
> is made (such as 0.7).
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/juju/+bug/1048770
FYI, resolution of this issue in trunk is really the only thing blocking
the release of 0.5.2, as I'd like to make sure this is fixed in trunk
before releasing a stable update which has it resolved.
Also, I'm not an admin of the ~juju team, so I can't create this 0.6
PPA myself.
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