On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 09:55:42PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:17:57AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 12:20:52PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > Also, I don't see why you would want to manually specify what stuff to > > > take from unstable instead of experimental? Isn't build-depends meant > > > for that? > > I don't think it'd work without lots of effort -- selecting packages > > from a suite needs to be done explicitly rather than by a build-depends > > afaics; happy to be proven wrong though. > I was thinking about versioned build-depends, which would work only if > experimental wouldn't shift too much between the time of upload and the > time of build. Sure, I was thinking the same; but given: foo | 1.0-1 | i386 | unstable bar | 1.0-1 | i386 | unstable foo | 2.0-1 | i386 | experimental bar | 2.0-1 | i386 | experimental I didn't think you could get: Build-Depends: foo (>= 1.0-1), bar (>= 2.0-1) to install foo from unstable and bar from experimental without writing some apt-ish logic of your own. I'm happy to be proven wrong, though: if it already works, that's great. Having an email that says: Build: baz 3.0-0pre3 Dsc-Size-MD5: 2341 da362d749976851a61571238cfe31f09 Target-Release: bar experimental otoh would be pretty easy to deal with: check the explicitly listed packages (apt-get install bar/experimental), then satisfy remaining build-depends from unstable in the normal way, unpack the .dsc, build it, mail the maintainer when it's done, and make the .debs, logs, .changes and ideally a tarred copy of the final build directory available via http for review and possible upload. That's not regular auto building obviously -- it's not automatic for one. It'd be a good complement to what we've already got though, I think, and a good fit for experimental packages. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> Don't assume I speak for anyone but myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Protect Open Source in Australia from over-reaching changes to IP law http://www.petitiononline.com/auftaip/ & http://www.linux.org.au/fta/
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