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This page is documentation for uploaders to the Launchpad PPA.

The Launchpad PPA (https://launchpad.net/~launchpad/+archive/ppa) contains dependencies for running Launchpad.

launchpad-dependencies

The launchpad-dependencies source is managed in Bazaar branches at https://code.launchpad.net/meta-lp-deps.

Policy/procedure for updates:

  1. You will need bzr-builddeb and debhelper packages installed.
  2. Edit debian/control to add or change the dependencies. Your name + email address must match an identity in your GPG key exactly.
  3. Run 'debchange -i' in the root to increment the version number and add a changelog entry in the correct format. Remember that launchpad-dependencies should not have an ubuntu1 suffix on its version number, so if debchange -i adds that for you, take it out again and increment the unsuffixed version number instead.
  4. debcommit or bzr commit
  5. Exercise personal judgment on whether your change merits a merge proposal, or is sufficiently trivial to just be committed directly.
  6. If preparing a merge proposal, please ensure your branch for review contains a complete debian/changelog entry ready for release.
  7. Go to the trunk (or older distro) branch and merge / commit or pull changes ready to build.
  8. Test-build your package:

    bzr builddeb
  9. Actually build your source upload:

    bzr builddeb -S
  10. Tag it, push it, upload it:

    bzr mark-uploaded
    bzr push lp:meta-lp-deps
    debsign -S
    debrelease --dput -S ppa:launchpad/ppa
  11. If uploading a version from the trunk branch, after it has built, go to the PPA +copy-packages page copy it to all the other distroseries that the trunk branch is currently serving. Use the copy existing binaries option when copying.

After you've done this, you may need to update EC2Test/Image

geoip-data-city-lite

This package is a single data file, which upstream publishes updates to monthly. Why haven't we updated it since 2008?

bzr-lpreview-body

This package contains the lpreview_body plugin for Bazaar. The packaging can be found in lp:~launchpad/lpreview-body/packaging.

bzr-pqm

bzr-pqm contains various plugins like lp-land. It needs to be maintained for all distroseries that we support development on.

https://code.launchpad.net/~launchpad-committers/+recipe/bzr-pqm-launchpad-ppa

pocket-lint

XXX: Explain maintenance process.

python-debian

Needed for bugfixes and renaming of the module from debian_bundle to debian.

xulrunner

Our jslint process requires a Javascript interpreter, ideally Spidermonkey, because Rhino is too slow. The Ubuntu source package of xulrunner no longer builds spidermonkey-bin. Therefore we have the Debian source package, minimally hacked to build only the binary packages which the Ubuntu source no longer provides, in the PPA, from Lucid onwards. (should put this in a branch)

slony1

stub requested an update to slony1 1.2.21 for lucid. https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~launchpad-committers/ubuntu/lucid/slony1/ppa-8.4

Distro series support

At any given time, we will be supporting multiple Ubuntu series in the PPA:


Obsolete packages

Some notes on past contents of the PPA.

Rebuilds to restore older Python support

Most of the PPA used to be rebuilds of python library packages to re-instate support for the old Python version Launchpad required, which was dropped as a supported version in Ubuntu.

In jaunty/karmic, the need was to re-add Python 2.4 support. Launchpad made it to Python 2.5 for Karmic... and then the need was to re-add Python 2.5 support in lucid packages. Now, Launchpad made it to 2.6, and the relevant Lucid packages have been moved to the "obsolete" PPA.

Towards the end, we had most of the rebuilds working via a no-source-change rebuild.

Other compatibility issues in Lucid

These also have gone to "obsolete" PPA.