A few issues

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:58 PM, William Reade
<william.reade at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 19:44 -0300, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
>> I stand corrected. It is certainly confusing to have no difference
>> between never seen and running the install hook, but if we can blame
>> someone for that confusion, that's myself. Sorry for that.
>
> I'd like to be a little bit richer here, and there's an avenue for
> addressing that, one day, without causing backward incompatibility (the
> info field) but I really am trying to avoid changes I can't justify :).
>
>> +1.  I think "fake-series" is something extremely vague to a normal
>> person that wants to try out tip. I think I get what it does, but
>> that's because I still know something about the internals.
>
> I am toying with calling it something less dodgy-sounding... it would be
> really cool to upload tools with `--series precise,quantal --arches
> arm,amd64` one day, and have it actually. Maybe we should just drop
> "fake-" in the interface for now?

This still feels a bit dodgy. It sounds like we could just bite the
bullet and upload the tools to relevant and well-known-working
series whenever --upload-tools is seen. It's still a hack, but one
that only developers will generally see, and one that makes it
actually work at all.


gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net