Dear mentors, I'm maintainer of buildbot and buildbot packages and a contributor to the project itself. I'm using git-buildpackage to maintain this project's packages. I'm looking for a way to continiously and properly build packages for this software for several Debian/Ubuntu distributions and distribute them by means of some Debian repository software (currently stopped on reprepro). Since this is a pure python software, it needs to be built on just one architecture. However I have faced with the situation I don't know how to solve.
When you build the same source package against different distributions you'll get the same name for binary package which means that you can actually upload a binary package just for one distribution. I've found several ways to overcome this but don't know which will be the best. The first is to upload only one source/binary package and publish them to several distributions at once. In this way I'll have one package referenced by several distributions. If there's a need to make specific changes to some distribution then another branch in git repository is created. This branch may have additional suffix to package version which will lead to different names for both source and binary packages and thus will be uploaded into the same repository with no problem. However in order to put one package into several repositories one must create changes file which will point to multiple distributions and I don't know how is this possible to do. The other way is to use "reprepro copymatched" command ad I'll possibly stick to it if I don't find a way to generate specific *.changes file. The problem is that I'll need to make additional checks to make sure this binary package is possible to install for every distribution. The second way is to change just package version in debian/changelog thus generating almost identical source packages for every distribution. This will surely make things simpler since the binary package produced on target distribution will most likely to fit that distribution. But having several source packages with difference in just one line in debian/changelog is a bit confusing. So which way should I choose? Maybe I have missed something, if so — then please point me that out. Thanks in advance, -- Andriy Senkovych -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAMS_SFJ74mdrLc734DZ-tfQyw6FHEqGH=hxt99y+xktagx9...@mail.gmail.com
