Re: Developer repositories for Debian
On 13202 March 1977, Joachim Breitner wrote:
>> - a PPAMAIN can have its full package set transferred into its base
>> suite with one command, provided the base suite is configured to
>> receive such transfers. (Currently we imagine only unstable will be
>> configured for it, but other suites might gain this feature
>> too). Only packages with versions NEWER than those existing in the
>> base suite will be transferred. All version checks of the base suite
>> must be fulfilled for the transfer to work.
> with a big: „Yes, thanks in advance“ from the Haskell team. This will
> allow us to keep the uninstallable count in unstable very low at all
> times, even while we rebuild stuff for a new compiler.
Yep, one of the reasons for it (though not with haskell especially in
mind, there are more packages that profit from it).
> Feature suggestion: Optionally only allow the package set transferred to
> unstable if all transferred packages are installable in the final set,
> or similar checks as applied in the unstable → testing transition.
That would mean having a kind-of-britney run, and only if that succeeds
move it over. Should be doable, i think.
>> - a PPAMAIN must have packages with unique versions which have to be
>> greater than in the base suite. Package versions are global for the
>> archive, so the ppaname has to be included in the version uploaded
>> to the PPA.
> What if it is decided by the maintainers of a certain package to do the
> uploads always to a PPA first and from there, via the above command, to
> unstable. Will it then be ok to use „normal“ version numbers?
Good question. The thought behind this is that a ppa haskell1 can
contain package debhelper as well as a ppa ruby42 can contain it. Both
with different changes to it. Which should work, and the easiest way to
ensure that is that each new upload to a ppa includes its ppaname.
--
bye, Joerg
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<lamont> Those people, who, when they do something currently outside of
the official rules for behavior [your choice here] 1) are
exempted from censure, or 2) (more accurately) by their actions
define a new set of rules for acceptable behavior in such context.
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