Packaging for many versions of ubuntu

[Chow Loong Jin]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 02:24:14PM +0200, Julian Taylor wrote:
> On 13.07.2013 14:17, Alessandro Menti wrote:
> >> AFAIK, version of ubuntu should be set in debian/changelog file. How
> >> can I build for raring and LTS versions for PPA?
> >> I have build for raring, changed in debian/changelog on "precise",
> >> tried to upload, but got *.debian.tar.gz already exists.
> > 
> > Simply build for Precise, then copy the resulting packages ([1]) to the
> > same PPA and the Raring series.
> > 
> 
> that only works if the dependencies in precise and raring are binary
> compatible.
> If not you have to rebuild.

Typically, if the dependencies are satisfied, they're binary compatible (ABI
breakages usually result in package renames), so as long as you can install the
same package in a pristine raring installation, you should be fine.

> [...]

-- 
Kind regards,
Loong Jin
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