Hi, I would like to create something like the Ubuntu Personal Package Archive (PPA), but for Debian. It should be a single package, which one just installs and it just woks. My current code is here:
http://code.google.com/p/debppa/ It's written in Django (Python) and my idea is to have a simple web page, like PPA has, I will create a source package, upload it, compile it by clicking on one button (it will use pbuilder/cowbuilder, compiles for several architectures), it will show the lintian/linda report, another button will run the package in piuparts. Then it will contain an apt-gettable archive of source and binary packages. So I'll install the "debppa" packge (ideally using one command) on some machine with fast internet connection and then I'll use apt-get on all the other machines. Currently the code can import packages, can compile them in cowbuilder (so only the server's architecture can be produced), show the logs, creates and automatically updates the Debian archive of binary packages. There are still some small issues, that need to be fixed and polished. In the future, I'd like to have these features: * if the same package is in the unstable, it will show a link to the Debian package page, together with a diff file, that I can just send to the repective BTS for the package and everyone can just see it and apply it himself * multiuser support Why do I need such a service: When creating new packages, I sometimes need to fix some packages in unstable. I also need to test all of them for a longer time to see if everything works as expected, also when I fix a package I need the binary immediatelly, usually on several computers (at work, at home, on laptop). Also I need several architectures (at least i386 and amd64). When everything works, I'll try to find a sponsor, then he will have comments, I will be iterating the package between me and him, then it will stay for 3 weeks in the NEW queue. If the package is not mine, I'll send the patch to the maintainer, but again, he may not agree with it, he doesn't have to have time, sometimes he can also make a mistake and upload a package, that doesn't build etc. etc. So the motivation is to have a service, that would be as comfortable as the Debian archive, but that I could operate immediatelly, so that I can fix things for myself and also for others, who would like to add one line into their sources.list, and also it would allow me to propagate my fixes and new packages back to Debian, which is slow. What is your opinion about this? Let me know, if any of you would be interested in such a thing, or even willing to help me with that. Ondrej -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
