Hi On 11 July 2012 11:23, Andrea Lazzarotto <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Il giorno 11/lug/2012 11:08, "Jeroen Demeyer" <[email protected]> ha > scritto: > > > > > On 2012-07-11 10:58, Jan Groenewald wrote: > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Package_Archive > > > http://blog.launchpad.net/ppa/personal-package-archives-for-everyone > > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas > > > > So if I understand things correctly, we give them our source and they > > build it for us, is that right? > > No, PPAs contain binaries and also the corresponding sources, you have to > successfully build a package in order to upload it to the PPA for other > people to download it. > You can upload packages that fail to build on launchpad. You are supposed to test them properly first. Nothing technically stops you. In particular, this package is like a binary (documentation or non-free driver) package: it just copies files in place. It HAPPENS to include all the source, but when I speak to launchpad people they are immediately suspicious of a binary package, as it might violate GPL. So far I do NOT upload the binary debs, only the "source" (in my case a debian package source including upstream built binaries). It then builds the deb packages, and if successful publishes them. Regards, Jan -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
