On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 5:02 AM, Zygmunt Krynicki <zygmunt.kryni...@canonical.com> wrote: > I'd like to work on enabling Debian in the CI loop and I was thinking > that it would be somewhat easier we switched to non-native packaging > in the upstream tree and similarly switched to quilt in the Debian > tree (we could have separate packaging trees for sid / stretch if that > would help). Since my view may be simplistic I would like to ask the > current most active Debian maintainers of snapd for opinion. > > Right now almost all of the CI in the tree is performed on the > packaging that is in the tree as well. The notable exception is 14.04 > which has a separate packaging branch. This is unrealistic as the > Debian packaging tree is widely different and even if we built a > package from the in-tree debian directory and tested it on a real > Debian machine the result would not be representative of what a > subsequent upstream release would look like in Debian. > > I'd like to propose that we remove the debian directory from the > upstream repository (no special casing) and work on ensuring that > Ubuntu and subsequently Debian are tested equally well whenever we > make a pull request. >
Splitting it out and using a similar repository structure to what you had previously for snap-confine would probably be a good move. That will also make things simpler for integrating in other distributions later (openSUSE, etc.). -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- Snapcraft mailing list Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft
