[Gambas-user] Gambas 3.5.4 and the Stable PPA

[Sebastian Kulesz]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Willy Raets <willy at ...2734...>
wrote:

> 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 I've seen his PPA has been archived and mailed him.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?
>

We are talking about different repositories. I will use a different method
to package Gambas because i don't have ubuntu installed. Some of the
advantages are the ones i explained in the first email. I can't use the
same method as kendek because i don't have ubuntu installed.
Currently, there is a common branch which holds common files from the
/debian folder used to generate the source files, and the series specific
repositories for each ubuntu version we support in the PPA. You can look
here [0] for those.

The thing is, these repositories are in sync with trunk, they hold the new
components information, installation rules and dependencies. I don't track
minor version releases because it is pointless to do so for the Daily
Builds PPA. So, to build for the Stable PPA, i have to go back in history
an look for the first change made to the packaging structure for Gambas
3.5.99, aka 3.6.


>
> >
> > 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.:)
>

I will be done next thursday. As soon as i get home i will start working on
a fix for the stable PPA.


>
> >
> > 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)
>
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[0] https://code.launchpad.net/~gambas-team