On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 07:16:47PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Jan Hauke Rahm (jhr@debian.org) [110502 18:34]: > > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 06:34:02PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > * Raphael Hertzog (hertzog@debian.org) [110501 18:23]: > > > > - APT entry to add (i.e. URL of the PPA so that the buildd can fetch > > > > build-dependencies not satisfiable in the target suite) > > > > > > Why not just use one location - shouldn't be an issue unless you plan > > > to have the same packages and version numbers in multiple PPAs. And > > > that's something I recommend not to do. > > > > I guess I'm misunderstanding you here, so please help me out. If a > > package is being worked on in different PPAs regarding different > > problems (thinking of serializing transitions for instanced but many > > other examples apply), how can they share the same version number > > without conflicting? > > Well, the combination of version number and package name needs to be > globally unique. Otherwise, consider what would happen if someone > reports a bug against a package/version, and we can't see which one it > was. > > That doesn't mean two packages have the same version number - in > contrast, they don't. But as you usually can't coinstall different > versions of e.g. the same library, that's all fair. In other words, you're suggesting some kind of versioning scheme for PPAs in order to avoid version conflicts? Hauke -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahm <jhr@debian.org> www.jhr-online.de : :' : Debian Developer www.debian.org `. `'` Member of the Linux Foundation www.linux.com `- Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe www.fsfe.org
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