On Mo, Okt 03, 2011 at 08:56:00 (CEST), Roman Haefeli wrote: > On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 12:16 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> I find that Launchpad is a good place to test new packages. > > Can you also use it to test against Debian releases? If yes, how?
No, launchpad builds in ubuntu chroots only. >> I think >> you have a launchpad account already, so it should be easy. I always >> upload my packages to my launchpad before submitting them for upload >> to Debian. So far, I haven't remembered how to use cowbuilder or >> pbuilder... an uploading to launchpad has stuck. > > (Am I right in thinking that launchpad.net also uses pbuilder?) No, launchpad uses the same software as used on the debian buildds: sbuild (although it may be patched a bit differently) > Thanks for the tip. I'm actually using pbuilder-dist from the > ubuntu-dev-tools packages which is also available in Debian. > It's a wrapper around pbuilder that allows for easy deployments of > different Ubuntu and Debian distros. TBH, I've found that sbuild/schroot (with aufs overlays) are a bit easier to setup than pbuilder-dist, but of course YMMV. Cheers, Reinhard -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers