[storm] ETA for 0.19?

[James Henstridge]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at canonical.com> wrote:
> A quick progress report and a few questions...
>
> I struggled a bit with autoppa, but I think I've finally whipped it into
> shape.  I noticed that there were no entries in debian/control.autoppa for
> Natty or Oneiric.  I added the latter and switch it to use dh_python2.  I
> should probably add a Natty PPA as well.  Is there a particular reason why
> autoppa isn't set up for Natty, or is it just that no one ever got around to
> updating the package?
>
> Only a few of the packages actually build though.  I did get the Oneiric build
> to succeed locally, but I had to disable the test suite to do this.  Please
> correct me if I'm wrong, but there's a fair bit of manual setup needed for
> both PostgreSQL and MySQL to get the test suite to succeed.  I think these
> tests should be skipped if the manual setup isn't done.  I've filed bug 867878
> about this.
>
> I'm still having some local build failures on other distroversions, and will
> continue to suss those out locally before I upload new packages to the PPA.
> Or I can just go ahead and do an upstream tarball release to PyPI and
> Launchpad and work on the PPA afterward (this actually makes it more
> convenient for package building).  If there are no objections and I can't get
> all packages built by COB tomorrow, I will probably go ahead and do that.
>
> What else?  I'd like to get 0.19 into Debian too.
>
> Is there an official statement as to what Ubuntu versions will be supported in
> the PPA?  From the control.autoppa file, it looks like we intend to build
> dapper, hardy, karmic, and lucid.  maverick support seems spotty (the rules
> file seems incomplete for maverick).  Do we need to build all the way back to
> dapper?  Would it be enough to build just back to the last LTS (i.e. lucid)?

I don't think the AutoPPA stuff is used by the Ubuntu or Debian
packagings of Storm, so I wouldn't consider it a blocker for the
release.

Getting the source tarballs up is the important part.

James.