my 2 cents to PPA evaluation - Enable uploads to post-release pockets in PPA

[B Berteh]

Thanks Celso for making the things clearer:

I indeed would like to be allowed to build packages in PPA against dependencies not satisfied in 'release' but only in 'backports', such as libtheora-dev being too old in 'dapper', but satisfactory in 'dapper-backports'.

I filled a bug asking for this feature, were I deliberately copied your first proposal of a solution, as it would already be great to have... I guess this discussion is better supported by the bug tracking tool than the mailing list:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/151528

Berteh.

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> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:56:09 -0300 
> From: celso.providelo at gmail.com 
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>> 2) a support for other distributions than Release (actually I'm mostly interested in backports, especially dapper-backports, as it is bit too out-dated to my needs)
>
> Can you explain exactly what it is you are trying to do that you can't
> do?
 
He means that PPA packages are built with dependencies coming only
from 'release' pocket.
 
We can solve this problem in two different ways:
 
 1. Enable uploads to post-release pockets in PPA. They would use the
respective (and maintained) ubuntu chroots and get build-deps
according the target pocket.
 
 2. Wait for 'archive_purpose-specific-chroots' implementation, when
we will be able to customize the 'release' chroot for PPA to grab
build-deps from post-release pockets.
(...)
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