Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Ubuntu rdiff-backup PPA?

[Andreas Olsson]

On Tuesday 27 January 2009 15:12:48 Dave Kempe wrote:
> Dominic wrote:
> > But I am not sure what official sanctioning there could be; Canonical
> > take no responsibility for private repositories, emphasizing 'you
> > should be happy that you trust the author of the package'. This is
> > something of a problem IMO.
True, hence I guess some kind of semi-official would be in order. Like being 
mentioned on the main rdiff-backup pages, together with suitable 
reservations.

> we actually already have these packaged for hardy and dapper in our
> private repos. I will talk to my guys and see what we can do to get them
> in a ppa if you like.

Kind of gotten most of it built nicely already. 
https://launchpad.net/~andol/+archive

The good thing about this setup I've created so far is that you can build 
gutsy-, hardy-, intrepid- and jaunty versions from pretty much the same 
source package. That's something which makes the maintainace a lot nicer.

Dapper on the other hand has to be built from a different source package. If 
you have something well put together in that area that surely would be nice.

> we also customised backupninja packages with lots of bugs fixed and
> features added. not sure if people would be interested in it.
Sounds interesting. Not that I use backupninja myself (yet), but I'm sure 
there are plenty of people who do.

Regarding the setup I was kind of thinking in terms of having a dedicated team 
account  on launchpad, providing somethink like a 
https://launchpad.net/~rdiff-backup-pkgs/+archive

Then new packages could first be built in mine, or someone elses, PPA. If they 
survive a couple of days testing they can then be copied to the "real" PPA.

Well, to be honest I didn't do all that thinking myself :) A lot of it's taken 
from a blog post I read the other day.

http://castrojo.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/309/

// Andreas

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