Let's Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release)

[Philip Muskovac]

On Friday 01 March 2013 01:31:37 Scott Kitterman wrote:
> David Henningsson <david.henningsson at canonical.com> wrote:
> >On 03/01/2013 05:55 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> >> On Friday, March 01, 2013 05:50:35 AM Martin Pitt wrote:
> >>> For those we'll need temporary staging areas which are not put into
> >>> the RR yet until they get a sufficient amount of testing; these
> >
> >could
> >
> >>> be "topic PPAs" which interested people would enable and develop in,
> >>> which get landed into the RR when everything is ready?
> >> 
> >> For people or teams that are largely or entirely !canonical, this
> >
> >only works
> >
> >> if all you care about is x86 (i386/amd64).  Anything for armhf (or
> >
> >powerpc)
> >
> >> would have to land untested since the PPAs that are available for
> >
> >!canonical
> >
> >> don't build these architectures.
> > 
> > From what I've heard, that is already fixed, at least for armhf - see
> >
> >http://dev.launchpad.net/CommunityARMBuilds
> 
> Not really.   Look at the limits associated with that.  It's a miminally
> useful small scale capability.
> 
> Also, since it's (AIUI) virtualized, packages built in one of these PPAs
> aren't suitable for copy to the primary archive.
> 
> It's a step, but not a solution.
> 
> Scott K

Let me add that due to 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1077116
(automoc4 crashes in qemu-virtualized armhf)
Kubuntu doesn't have any *usable* armhf PPA builders right now as KDE software 
doesn't compile in qemu.

The only way for us to get armhf binaries built is by using the archive 
builders. If we can't use those for development anymore we have a bit of a 
problem.

Philip Muskovac
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