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. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
