recommended ppa for "actual" hg for kubuntu trusty

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2015-08-10 at 14:54 -0700, Pierre-Yves David wrote:
> 
> On 08/10/2015 02:46 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com
> > <mailto:mpm at selenic.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Mon, 2015-08-10 at 14:13 -0700, Bosco Rama wrote:
> >     > Sorry to revive an old thread...
> >     >
> >     > On 03/25/15 16:07, Matt Mackall wrote:
> >     > >
> >     > > FYI, we've got a couple people interested in bringing the PPA back to
> >     > > life in addition to further automating the creation of .debs independent
> >     > > of Debian/Ubuntu.
> >     >
> >     > I'm very interested to know if there has been any advancement on this
> >     > front.  I'm concerned mainly because it is affecting my ability to
> >     > champion hg in my work environment.
> >
> >     You can now run make debian-jessie or make docker-debian-jessie to build
> >     a jessie .deb. Tweaking that to work for Ubuntu releases should be
> >     simple; left as an exercise for the Ubuntu-sphere.
> >
> >
> > We publish RPMs at https://mercurial.selenic.com/release/. Would it be
> > possible to publish .deb files as well? This has recently come up at
> > Mozilla as well. It would be nice if there were official'ish .deb files
> > we could point people at.
> 
> If someone provide a easily build-able debian package 
> -compatible-with-upstream-debian-. I would happily add this to my 
> nightly-builder.

Is this not what make debian-jessie is?

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