<div dir="ltr">That sounds fine, but also like a detour from the actual goal. One way or another, the in-tree packaging that is there for Ubuntu won't be at stake when making it work on Debian. Also note that the in-tree debian/ directory doesn't work even for Ubuntu, strictly speaking. We already have the 14.04 bits in a separate branch.<div><br></div><div>I'd focus on making it properly test more distributions first (not just Debian either) and later worry about whether we should get rid of debian/ or not.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Zygmunt Krynicki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zygmunt.krynicki@canonical.com" target="_blank">zygmunt.krynicki@canonical.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'd like to work on enabling Debian in the CI loop and I was thinking<br>
that it would be somewhat easier we switched to non-native packaging<br>
in the upstream tree and similarly switched to quilt in the Debian<br>
tree (we could have separate packaging trees for sid / stretch if that<br>
would help). Since my view may be simplistic I would like to ask the<br>
current most active Debian maintainers of snapd for opinion.<br>
<br>
Right now almost all of the CI in the tree is performed on the<br>
packaging that is in the tree as well. The notable exception is 14.04<br>
which has a separate packaging branch. This is unrealistic as the<br>
Debian packaging tree is widely different and even if we built a<br>
package from the in-tree debian directory and tested it on a real<br>
Debian machine the result would not be representative of what a<br>
subsequent upstream release would look like in Debian.<br>
<br>
I'd like to propose that we remove the debian directory from the<br>
upstream repository (no special casing) and work on ensuring that<br>
Ubuntu and subsequently Debian are tested equally well whenever we<br>
make a pull request.<br>
<br>
Best regards<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">ZK<br>
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