-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 17/02/11 18:02, Martin Pool wrote: > I'd like to do a new feature in Launchpad to help Ubuntu, which is > to allow packages to be built directly from source package > branches. This would address one of the messy parts of source > package branches at the moment, which is the need to upload the > package, mark it uploaded, and also push the branch. This will > build on things that seems to be quite popular and successful with > ppa building from recipes, and help us simplify some redundantc > > Most of what we need to do this already exists, so I'm hoping that > we'll be able to get it up quite quickly. > > I would like to start on this soon by just offering it as an > adjunct to regular dput uploads, for a limited set of packages. For > packages in that set, when someone commits to the branch, a part of > Soyuz will automatically assemble a source package and queue it for > building. This will let people try it out while still having the > option to keep using regular dput uploads. > > We have a Launchpad Enhancement Proposal (LEP) about this at > <https://dev.launchpad.net/LEP/BuildFromBranchIntoPrimary>. I'd > appreciate hearing of > > * any problems you can spot in this * any missing constraints or > likely snags we ought to consider * anyone or any packages who'd > like to be first to try it > > Thanks! Martin > Awesome feature. I'm happy to volunteer gcalctool to use this. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
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