recommended ppa for "actual" hg for kubuntu trusty

[Augie Fackler]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> 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?


No, it's a start. Someone (possibly me, it's still on my eventual
roadmap) needs to make it produce mercurial and mercurial-common
packages so it conforms with the packaging policy.