[Launchpad-dev] Build service thoughts

[Julian Edwards]

On Thursday 15 September 2011 01:34:04 Martin Pool wrote:
> > One source package is built for many distros and distro versions.
> > This would be nice to have in PPAs, again removing a minor hassle from
> > packagers of having to build and upload source packages multiple
> > times.
> 
> Right, this is somewhat harder to individually script around, and I
> think one of the bigger annoyances of PPAs today.  From the
> implementation point of view you do need different version numbers for
> each rebuild, but for the user it seems unreasonable.
> 
> We could do either of a couple of kludges:
> 
>  * some kind of easy flow around copying the binary between
> distroseries, for cases where it's appropriate
>  * a purely-automated tool to copy the package, add a changelog entry,
> reupload - like a subset of autoppa, but without needing any
> configuration aside from the choice of destination series.
> 
> I kind of like the latter: it would cope ok in the fairly common
> (cite?) case of one source package building adequately well across all
> active series.

There's bugs about this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/235064
https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/225013

The former being more appropriate, but it's quite hard to fix - the bug 
explains why.