Maverick LTS backport preview

[Tim Gardner]

On 05/18/2010 10:55 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:25:58AM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rtg/ubuntu-lucid.git lts-backport-maverick
>>
>> See helper script debian.maverick/etc/update-from-maverick-master
>> for automation help. Thoughts?
>
> I think we decided that although the source package name is unique, the
> binary package names are not.  Therefore if you just mush this to
> linux-maverick in lucid-proposed we will end up building binary packages
> in lucid and maverick with the same names:
>
>   linux-image-2.6.32-15-generic_2.6.34-2.9
>
> I believe this will cause issues in the archive.  I think were leaning
> towards appending ~lucid1 to the end of the version number as well to
> stop this?
>

Yeah, I was just looking at that. We definitely need to make the binary 
package names unique.

> I do wonder if we should just ignore the ABI tracking always for these
> kernels.  We know if we needed a bump we have one as we handled it for
> the original maverick version.  If we were willing to do that I recon
> we actually could just make this automated.
>

I guess that makes sense. In that event the script could just create the 
ABI directory and populate it with ignore files. That gets rid of 2 
command line options.

> I see you copy a lot of stuff over to debian.maverick, I assume this
> is to maintain the branch config is in debian.<branch>  semantics?  But I
> do not see you changing debian.env to match.  Perhaps we could do this
> more like:
>
> 	git mv debian.master debian.maverick
> 	echo "DEBIAN=debian.maverick">debian/debian.env
> 	git add debian/debian.env
>
> -apw

Actually, the initial backport commit 'UBUNTU: [Config] Initial Maverick 
LTS backport' does the topic branch BS that'll never change. I may go 
back and clean up some of that patch and pare it down to the bare 
minimum. There are also still a few abstraction gotchas in debian.master 
that I had to munge. I'll send you some patches for that eventually.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com