On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 07:12:40AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:36:05PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > I approve of this patch in general. I want to hold off a little before > > applying it, though, because I know that some infrastructure is still a > > bit ... recent where it comes to build profiles. (In particular, since > > my day job is as a Launchpad developer, I'd rather like to get Launchpad > > to support this first so that I don't make problems for myself at work.) > > But I think we can probably do this fairly soon. > > I talked to William Grant again and made him aware of the progress on > the Debian side. It seems like much of the infrastructure is still > running precise while the tool support landed mostly in vivid. William > said that he'd look into this. Since there are backport patches > implementing just the syntax and Ubuntu has experience with backporting > stuff in apt and dpkg, I expect little problems.
Right, William and I are colleagues. I ended up fixing most of this a week or two ago, so things should be unblocked now. I'll apply your latest patch in my next upload. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
