Hi Paul & Zygmunt (& others),

I spent a while today fixing a couple of bugs in lava-tool and in the packaging of lava-server, and was wondering what the process should be for getting them into the ~linaro-validation ppa and onto v.l.o (although there's no particular urgency in getting these precise fixes deployed, there will be changes that are more urgent).

In some sense these are basic debian packaging questions I guess. But my understanding of the process is that it should go like this:

If there are upstream changes, make a new release (update the version in __init__.py, tag the branch, make an sdist and upload it to pypi).

Then (whether there is an upstream change or not) it should be uploaded to a PPA. I think the part here that I don't really get is basically how to use bzr build-deb in practice. But I've just found http://jameswestby.net/bzr/builddeb/user_manual/merge.html so I think I should read that first :)

Another question I have is around version numbers. Currently we're using version numbers like 0.2-0ubuntu0~zyga1. I don't really see why the "zyga" is in there :) I think simply dropping the zyga and using versions like 0.2-0ubuntu0~1 would be fine, or if we want to know who uploaded a particular version we can use things like 0.2-0ubuntu0~2mwhudson.

Finally, I think that we should be triggerhappy about releases, and so going through the above process shouldn't take very long. I guess lava-dev-tool can help here.

Cheers, mwh