Re: Ubuntu and Debian packages / 2013-09-27

[Philippe Roussel]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 12:34:45PM +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
> Am 30.11.2013 11:53, schrieb Philippe Roussel:
> > Well, it may take a while. On my build machine pbuilder (or some other
> > script it uses) doesn't recognize saucy as a distribution so I'll have
> > to update some stuff.
> > 
> > I would also like to limit the number of ubuntu versions I build
> > packages for so if saucy comes in, another one will go out.
> 
> What holds you back from using an Ubuntu PPA? There everything is
> compiled for you, in all available versions. Even the number of users
> should raise, as you're found when googling for "ubuntu gnustep".

I thought about it but as Ivan guessed I'm not building src debs which
are needed to use a ppa. One reason is that it took me a while to get
something working with pbuilder and I don't want to spend more time
becoming a debian packaging master. The other reason is that I have to
build the packages anyway to find breakages, add patches, remove
others etc. For example I tried to update the packages this morning
and found a build error in Gorm. I think it's easier and faster to
build and inspect on my local setup.

Anyway, if someone knows how to successfuly setup a ppa to build fresh
gnustep packages, please let me know when it's done, I would love to
get some free time back :o)

Thanks,
Philippe
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