Portals packages for the PPA

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Fri Sep 30 13:13:11 UTC 2016


On fre, 2016-09-30 at 13:52 +1000, Michael Gratton wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com>
>  
> wrote:
> > 
> > This means that (soon) the only thing we need to maintain is the
> > 16.04
> > PPA, which essentially is a trivial rebuild of the debian package,
> > but
> > with the system bwrap dropped in favour of the built-in one.
> > 
> > So, to migrate the PPA at this point seems a bit too painful.
> > However,
> > I'd love some help doing and testing the package backports anyway.
> > Maybe we can make a github fork of simons debian package, then we
> > can
> > do shared work there, but I submit the final builds to the PPA. How
> > does that sound?
> Hmm, yeah having a PPA for 16.04 (being long-term supported) would
> be 
> good, but it sill might be useful having some more up-to-date builds 
> for 16.10 anyway, while Flatpak development is still moving quickly 
> anyway. Doing no-change rebuilds like that aren't too painful.

I thought flatpak was in 16.10 already, via debian?

> If Simon is happy to have the PPA builds based off his packages,
> I'll 
> have time to get the fork going early next week.

Thanks!

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