On 21/02/2009, at 19.51, Mario Limonciello wrote: > What happens when someone needs to make changes without modifying > the build number? REVU allows this, but PPAs explicitly wouldn't > unless you deleted the old build, waited for the publisher to see > the deletion, and reran it. You'd then run into weird situations on > environments that might have already installed a package from the > REVU PPA.
Oh, I didn't make it quite clear: I imagine that packages uploaded to the PPA would be the ones that passed reviewing with 2 advocates. So essentially, these package would be in a state ready for upload to Ubuntu's archive. I agree that dealing with every upload in the PPA would be unmanagable. Perhaps an exception from this rule could be made wrt. library packages. > Generally when people upload to PPAs, they'll append ~ppaX or +ppaY > to the revision to reflect the fact that these aren't really in the > archive yet. There can be some confusion especially when there are > changes to the packaging, but the build number hasn't changed. Yes, this is a good point. We may have to solve the problem by appending ~ppa* (or ~revu*) to be able to deal with situations like you describe. That extension needs to be stripped on the final upload. Cheers, Morten -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
