A few issues

[roger peppe]

On 11 April 2013 04:36, Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo.niemeyer at canonical.com> wrote:
> 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.

This was actually suggested, but I wasn't keen, because at the
wrong end of this ASDL, uploading takes ages, and every extra
series uploaded to is another minute extra on my bootstrap time.