Things we ought to do to improve our packaging

[Matt Mackall]

On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 16:44 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> > I don't know, but I suspect there is. How does one grab the equivalent
> > of a nightly on Gentoo? How long do I have to wait to install 2.7 if the
> > packager is on vacation? Is there stuff that requires manual
> > intervention from release to release like adding new files?
> 
> As Nikolaj mentioned, you can trivially build packages from your
> public repo's tip. There are two packagers, so you might have to wait
> a little bit, but it's only a filename move away (in an overlay) if
> you want it badly (e.g. no actual building). No intervention is
> generally required for version bumps.

Ok, so it's fairly painless. Let's flip the question around: is there
any reason we should NOT be doing automated nightly Gentoo builds to
spot problems, given how easy it is?

This would have presumably spotted something like this before release:

http://www.bz.selenic.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4010

..and perhaps real problems as well.

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