On za, 2014-07-12 at 02:38 -0300, Sebastian Kulesz wrote: > Hey! Long time no see. > > I got word a few hours ago that Kendek won't be maintaining the Stable PPA > any more. Instead, he created a new PPA under the gambas-team Launchpad > name and uploaded the current stable (3.5.3) packages so they can be > updated by us.
I've seen his PPA has been archived and mailed him. He told me the same. > > The thing is, I don't have ubuntu installed in my computer as i don't need > it to manage the Daily Builds PPA. The problem arises when trying to push > Gambas 3.5.4 to the Stable PPA using the same method i'm using for the > Daily Builds. To do this, i have to bisect 3 repositories to find the > revision which corresponds to the release of the 5.* branch. Right now, > this repositories correspond to the next release of Gambas (3.6). So, even > if i were to do the bisection and find the working revision, the builds > would still differ from the one Kendek made. Could you not simply take from svn 3.5 branch, instead of picking revisions, or am I understanding this wrong? > > Because of this, I decided not to package this release in the new PPA for > now. Different package methods can introduce bugs that should not exist in > a stable distribution. > Don't get me wrong, with enough time, i know it can be done. But i'm > currently studying for finals and time is really scarce. I'm glad you are willing to take up this job, but your finals go first, so we will be patient.:) > > If anybody is up for the job, please let me know. If it's not too time > consuming i will do my best to help get it done. I wish I knew how to package, have been reading about it and was advised to start with simple packages. Packaging Gambas doesn't seem a good point of start for learning how to package debs in general. > Next week, once i'm done, i will fix the repositories to also build the > Stable releases, but until the next major release I won't label it as > stable. I don't want to put extra work where it is not needed. > > Bad news aside, this move brings the possibility for automatic Beta builds. > This ones will be based off the current stable branch, and be updated every > time there is a merge from trunk to backport a bugfix. > This shortens the window of getting a fix for a stopping bug from months to > 24 hours! :) > Sounds promising, looking forward to it and thanks for your efforts to get Gambas latest stable available on Ubuntu and its siblings... -- Kind regards, Willy (aka gbWilly) http://gambasshowcase.org/ http://howtogambas.org http://gambos.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
