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On Monday 11 May 2009 01:10:14 Max Bowsher wrote:
> I'm aware that this workflow can be emulated using two separate PPAs, but
> that has a couple of shortcomings:
>
> 1) Since separate PPAs don't share a pool/, ppa.launchpad.net needs to
> keep two copies of all the packages on disk.
This isn't that big a problem for us.
> 2) If you follow a workflow of deleting packages from the staging PPA
> once they have been promoted, you can no longer re-use their
> .orig.tar.gz files for future uploads.
Why not just leave them to supersede naturally?
Ultimately, this is probably a useful change to make, but it would be really confusing to newbies. Since you have this workaround, I'll mark this as low priority for the moment, but we should continue the conversation and decide on how to make this work for all types of users.