PPA and the distribution - what's the plan?

[Neil Wilson]

I'm presuming from the blurb that the build system for PPA will always
build against the current ubuntu development release and will
completely ignore whatever you put in the debian/changelog entry as
the target.

This gives a couple of problems.

Firstly I might be developing software in October and all of a sudden
my packages disappear from the radar because they end up in a 'Gutsy +
1' archive. Or are you planning on signposting when the build system
will 'upgrade' to the next release. Will it follow the standard
timebox for example.

Secondly it means I can't use PPA as a 'backport-lite' system -
building against the previous release, or the previous LTS release to
test out backports or to do subset backports targetted at a particular
problem.

Is there a view on these issues, or have I perhaps misunderstood the process?

NeilW