Comment 2 for bug 367031

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:26:03AM -0000, Celso Providelo wrote:
> I see your point, but having archive dependencies configurable at that
> level seems to make the whole thing way more complicated than it needs
> to be for the majority of the cases.

I'd only activate that if one chooses to get the same components as in
the main archive.

> We have an alternative, IMHO, enable pockets for some PPAs in need to
> mimic exactly what happens in the primary archive (only -backports
> sources have access to -backports binaries).

Somehow I read that this would already be available, but it isn't. Yes,
that would probably be the cleanest approach here. It's maybe not clear
to the endusers that they would need -backports for some distroseries,
though, but one could easily communicate this in the PPA description.

> And for the time being, one can easily represent these different build
> environments by having multiple PPAs, which seems to have pretty much
> the same effect for uploaders and users. Do you agree ?

I really dislike having multiple PPAs just for this. That's like
having one PPA per distroseries so that people don't need to switch
PPAs when, say, backports is required at some point.

But the only pocket which could really screw things up is backports
anyway. I guess I'll go backporting debhelper to the PPA in question
now to avoid this trap.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern