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Re: Debian ppa



On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 07:17 +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:
> > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 16:24:44 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> >> On Mittwoch, 22. September 2010, Mike Hommey wrote:
> >>> PS: for my personal needs, some way to get random packages autobuilt
> >>> would already be helpful (call that ppa if you want).>> 
> >> I seem to recall, ftpmaster was planning something like that. Or wanted to?
> >> If so, what the status? If not, shall we start it? I think so.
> > HE proposed something like this (on the buildd side) for gsoc, there
> > were no takers, iirc.
> 
> Actually, the proposed project [1] also included work on the dak side
> and a minimalistic web interface. Joerg Jaspert agreed to help with the
> dak side of things, back then.
> 
> I still believe that this can and should be implemented. If someone is
> interested, I'm happy to help; I assume the same holds for Joerg.

While Launchpad.net does not provide Debian PPAs, what prevents you from
taking the Launchpad code, rebranding it, and running your own instance?
It does require some changes to work with Debian's suites, but that
would be far easier than reimplementing all the functionality yourself.

William.

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