ppa builds should not be affected by P-A-S

[Lionel Le Folgoc]

I uploaded new upstream releases of pbbuttonsd and gtkpbbuttons some days ago in my PPA:

gtkpbbuttons - 0.6.10-0ubuntu1~ppa1 2007-09-19 Published gutsy Release universe x11
pbbuttonsd - 0.8.1a-0ubuntu1~ppa1 2007-09-19 Published gutsy Release main admin

The source packages were accepted without problem.

But they won't show up in my builds logs, and binary packages aren't built (https://edge.launchpad.net/~mrpouit/+archive/+builds?build_text=&build_state=all).

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

Is this also a bug about automatically retrying builds that were DEPWAIT? For what its worth, I think the default listing of builds in an archive should show anything that has NOT YET successfully built - failures, depwaits, current building etc.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

No, that's not in DEPWAIT, it builds fine in a pbuilder.

I think this is a bug related to the archive buildds: in the main archive, these packages are only built for powerpc, thus the PPA buildds don't even try to build them on other arches (but they should).

[Celso Providelo (cprov)]

Ouch, i should have noticed it before.
'pbbuttonsd' is only supposed to be built on 'powerpc' as you can see in ubuntu package page (https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pbbuttonsd/0.7.9-2ubuntu3), unless you have modified your PPA source, the PPA system won't generate any build records for it.
Remembering that only i386 & amd64 builds are generated for PPA.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

I filed this bug report because I updated the source packages to build on amd64 & i386 (since macbook support was added in the latest release):

gtkpbbuttons (0.6.10-0ubuntu1~ppa1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * debian/control:
    - Modify Maintainer value to match the DebianMaintainerField specification
    - Arch: powerpc -> any
    - Override section to universe/*..
  * debian/rules: update make distclean call to make lintian happy.

 -- Lionel Le Folgoc <email address hidden> Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:56:52 +0200

pbbuttonsd (0.8.1a-0ubuntu1~ppa1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * debian/control: powerpc -> any.
  * debian/rules: update make distclean call to make lintian happy.
  * debian/pbbuttonsd.files: change config file name (*.conf -> *.cnf).

 -- Lionel Le Folgoc <email address hidden> Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:47:02 +0200

As stated in the changelogs, "Architecture: powerpc" was updated to "Architecture: any", so the issue seems to be in the buildds, which still only consider the powerpc arch...

[Celso Providelo (cprov)]

I see, unfortunately we respect Ubuntu P-a-s (Package-architecture-specific) rules and is says:

{{{
%gtkpbbuttons: powerpc # powerpc specific
%pbbuttonsd: powerpc # powerpc specific
gtkpbbuttons: powerpc # powerpc specific
}}}

Maybe we should not consider ubuntu P-a-s for PPAs at all, specially considering that we restrict the architecture domain to i386 &* amd64 only and those two don't exactly benefit a lot from P-a-s (people usually get them right ...). Let me discuss it a bit more with buildd-admins, ok ?

[Celso Providelo (cprov)]

Ok, we decided to give it a try and do not consider P-a-s restrictions for PPA builds, so users will have a chance to port applications for all architectures supported by PPA.

Summing up a PPA source will be built on all requested architectures in its control file that are supported by the PPA system (i386, amd64 and lpia, currently).

[Celso Providelo (cprov)]

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