Automatically copy built binaries

[Steven Sproat]

Currently my PPA release procedure is as follows:

- debuild -S from source directory
- debput to upload to Launchpad, wait for build success notification.

After the build completes, I then to go the following URL:

https://launchpad.net/~sproaty/+archive/ppa/+copy-packages

select the newly build package, copy its binary over to Karmic.
select the newly build package, copy its binary over to Lucid.
select the newly build package, copy its binary over to Intrepid.
select the newly build package, copy its binary over to Hardy

It would be nice to somehow have a "copy built binaries to all releases" feature, so that once my package is built, it is available for all distributions without anything on my behalf.

I'm building a Python program, so it's architecture independent, if that matters.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

Hi there. Thanks for the bug report.

We're acutely aware of this use case, although it's not a trivial fix to make. Read bug 245594 for a very similar issue. In your case you're looking to copy binaries rather than rebuild, although it's possible rebuilding for the series might be what you really need?

[Steven Sproat (sproaty)]

Rebuilding could work - it doesn't really matter to me *when* they're available (e.g. if you had to rebuild my package 4 times to support 4 other series', then that is okay).

I just figured there was some function that's being called when you select to copy a binary from one release to the other, so I pictured this 'bug' just being something like,

for distro in series():
   copy_binary(built_binary, distro)

but obviously it's not as simple as that :)

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

You can script this through the Launchpad API to make your life a bit easier in pretty much the manner you describe. Check out syncSource at http://launchpad.net/+apidoc