ubuntu-core-dev PPA?

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Thu Sep 18 20:49:37 BST 2008


On Thursday 18 September 2008 15:40, Colin Watson wrote:
...
> The only downside I can see is that if the freeze stretches out too long
> then people who have the ubuntu-core-dev PPA in their sources.list will
> be testing something at variance with the alphas. However, since the
> bulk of milestone testing happens with CD images, I'm not all that
> worried about this.

I think we'd also have to worry about packages getting uploaded both to the 
archive and to the PPA needing to be merged at the end of the freeze.  This 
can probably be mechanized pretty well once we've transitioned to DVCS 
packaging, but I can see it being potentially problematic now.

Scott K



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