Subject: Staging PPA

From: Robert Ancell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:23:28 +1200

Hi all,

I just did a big clean out of the staging PPA [1] so it's in better shape.

In particular:
- No more build failures
- No more packages not related to Mir
- Only supports saucy

This PPA is useful in that you can get:
- The latest version of Mir packaged from trunk
- The latest version of Unity System Compositor packaged from trunk - BUT
since libmirserver doesn't have a stable API/ABI there is a chance that the
built package in the PPA doesn't match the mir package.
- Experimental SDL builds with Mir support

So with the caveat that you have to rebuild anything that depends on
libmirserver this PPA is useful for cherry-picking bleeding edge packages.
It's not suitable for day-to-day use - for that continue to use the main
archive which is populated by the daily landing system.

--Robert

[1] https://launchpad.net/~mir-team/+archive/staging/+packages

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From: Oliver Ries <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:51:17 -0600

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Robert Ancell <[email-masked]
> wrote:

> - No more packages not related to Mir

+1

> - Experimental SDL builds with Mir support
Does it build automatically? do we have any integration type tests gating
the PPA or would this be already covered by the CI that's in place before
we merge to trunk?

What's the delta to archive then if we are releasing into archive every 4h
in case we are not stopped or blocked?

thx,
O.

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From: Robert Ancell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:56:41 +1200

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Oliver Ries <[email-masked]>wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Robert Ancell <
> [email-masked]> wrote
>
>

mir and u-s-c are built automatically. SDL is pushed manually.

> in case we are not stopped or blocked?

The delta is the last n commits after the last 4hr release.