Indexes debian-installer udebs in Packages and no debian-installer udebs index(es)

[Loïc Minier]

Hi,

ppas don't seem to support udebs; they will list .udebs in Packages{,.gz} and there's no index of udebs.

This means:
- ppa with e.g. linux expose "new" binary packages which will probably fail to install (or worse)
- it might not be possible to test udeb changes in ppas

I think it might be an option to only include .deb files in ppa Packages indexes, or exclude .udebs explicitely.

Bye,

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

These ought to end up in http://ppa.launchpad.net/USER/ubuntu/dists/SERIES/COMPONENT/debian-installer/binary-ARCH/Packages.gz, just like Ubuntu.

[Celso Providelo (cprov)]

Right, PPA publishing infrastructure (aka NoMoreAptFtparchive) doesn't yet support debian-installer indexes.

We can quickly filter out udebs from the ordinary indexes, but building debian-installer indexes might take a little bit longer.

How urgent is this feature ? Do we have any PPAs that are severily blocked but the lack of udeb indexing ?

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

I don't think we critically need udeb indexes, it would help for some stuff. I was really concerned about listing udebs in indexes though.

[Celso Providelo (cprov)]

Okay, Loic, Let's filter the udebs out, then.

[Celso Providelo (cprov)]

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