Massive sync and rebuild of packages? The case of OCaml

Martin Pitt martin.pitt at ubuntu.com
Fri Jun 12 15:14:39 UTC 2009


Hello David,

David MENTRE [2009-06-12 16:12 +0200]:
>  2. massive rebuild of all other packages through a binNMU[2].
> 
> Thus my questions:
>  * Is Ubuntu infrastructure is providing capabilities for doing such
> massive rebuild of packages, in several rounds? Is it considered
> correct behaviour or something to avoid?

We don't have an automatic system for that yet. However, if it's just
a simple change to a package (or none at all), someone can do a
semi-automatic transition with a script like

  http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/scripts/update-maintainer-transition

Martin
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