On Wednesday 19 January 2011 09:07:30 Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > anatoly techtonik wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> "the ppa doesn't seem to update" sounds very funny: "updating to ~beta3" > >> is not automagical: it implies a certain time of work and compilation. > > > > Why not to make it automagical? If you can point to the description of > > the process then somebody may try to automate it. > > If software packaging was automagical, there would be no reason to have > distributions… > > In the specific case of the PySide stack, packaging was complicated to set > up correctly because the 5 elements have to be uploaded in chain, because > the Debian policy requires to build shiboken and pyside for each available > python version (which needs patches), because ABI breaks still happen from > time to time (the mere reason of this thread), because I impose myself the > burden of tracking ABI symbols, because compiling PySide takes up to 7 > hours on my building machine and because I try my best to not upload > broken packages on the official PPA (I always test-build on my personal > PPA before uploading). > > And in the specific ~beta3 case, it also took some time because I tried to > lower the burden of backporting by splitting the symbols wrt ditributions > and g++ versions. This will make the next versions faster too. But at each > version, upstream makes changes (which is normal) which have to be handled > at the packaging level.
Btw, did you see this commit? http://qt.gitorious.org/pyside/shiboken/commit/297151081ffae13c8dbb66ffde61f2c15eaae2a3 For sure it will change the packaging, but for better I guess. > And finally, believe me, if it was automatable, I would have done it > already. > > Cheers, > > OdyX > > _______________________________________________ > PySide mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openbossa.org/listinfo/pyside -- Hugo Parente Lima INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia
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