On 07/27/2012 11:28 AM, Eric Gregory wrote: > Apologies in advance if this is the wrong place to ask about the Vala PPA, > but I was wondering if it would be possible to have a slight policy change. > > Currently, only builds of the latest releases of the unstable and stable > branches are kept in the repo. The problem with this approach is if that > version contains a critical bug, all Launchpad projects which depend on the > Vala PPA will fail to build. > > Fortunately there's a simple solution -- keep the previous builds in the > repo. This way projects which require an exact version of Vala can > continue to build on Launchpad, and end-users can install and "lock" a > specific version of Vala on their system if need be.
I don't know much about the Launchpad/PPA system, or who's in charge of the Vala PPA, however I have to ask the obvious question: Are other PPAs set up like this? Is this common? If there is relevant Ubuntu policy, what does it say? Can't people worried about incompatible/buggy updates in Vala, but who still need recent versions from the PPA, simply Build-Depends up to the newest version they've checked? End-users, of course, can already instruct apt to lock a package to a specific version. This has been possible with Debian (and Ubuntu, of course) for as long as I can remember (which is quite a while) Thomas > > Does this sound reasonable? Is there a reason the PPA is currently not > setup this way? > > - Eric > > P.S. Be sure to come say hi to us Yorbans if you're at GUADEC! > > > > _______________________________________________ > vala-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list > _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
