Easy branch-to-package creation coming to Launchpad

By , Published June 10, 2010

Testing development branches of your favourite applications will soon be made a lot easier thanks to a new “Branch-to-package wizard” (my term, not theirs) being added to Launchpad.

Developers will be able to easily turn their branches into packages via the use a new package recipe™ builder, with the resulting packages available in a PPA.

Canonical’s Michael Nelson, announcing the feature on his blog, provided a short video of the wizard in action, along with a brief statement: -

Thanks to the excellent work from the Launchpad Code team and others (James and William, to name just two), here’s a preview of how easy it will soon be to build a branch into published binaries in your PPA: http://blip.tv/file/3738068

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://twitter.com/om26er omer akram

    Now this will be interesting

  • http://twitter.com/orawas orawas

    nice!

  • Anonymous

    How do you specify dependences?

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  • http://blastfromthepast.se/ Tommy Brunn

    Ooo, sweet! Packaging is DEFINITELY something that needs to be made easier. It is ridiculously hard!

    EDIT: Oh wait, I think I misunderstood. This just automates a process that you’ve already defined. So it does save you some manual labor, but it’s still just as complicated.

  • Anonymous

    Does this mean there will be more PPA’s (coz it will be easy to set it up, many devs will do it)??.. thats good news.

  • http://www.expatsinksa.com/ Bilal Akhtar

    Even though this WILL be an advantage for us, we will *still* need to package manually, as most of the devs (like me) have to tune the default debian/rules file so that it works perfectly for a package that we want to build.
    Still, very good feature of LP :)

 
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