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Add debian packaging to CI #8555
Description
We keep breaking the debian package builds, which is annoying when trying to release.
We may want to consider just running this on develop/release branches to save resource?
Presumably we don't want to use the debs built in CI, in case they get compromised?
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anoadragon453 commentedon Oct 15, 2020
@richvdh mentioned an alternative which was to build debian packages on RC's as well - which would allow us to catch issues sooner on less important releases.
richvdh commentedon Oct 15, 2020
not so much an alternative, as something that might be nice to do in addition
richvdh commentedon Dec 16, 2020
(for links: #6116 is about packaging RCs)
callahad commentedon Jan 20, 2021
For CI, which Debian / Ubuntu release do we want to build for?
Building for all releases seems slow and wasteful.
The stable releases should be... stable. So I suspect building for
testingin CI would be the best way to catch breakage. And in fact, only builds ontestingfailed for #9073richvdh commentedon Jan 20, 2021
counterpoint: we're more likely to accidentally introduce an incompatibility with an old distro.
suggested compromise: build for oldest-supported distro and
sid?callahad commentedon Jan 20, 2021
#9073 worked on
oldstable,stable, andsid, but not ontestingSo let's go with oldest supported +
testingrather thansid?richvdh commentedon Jan 20, 2021
with the exception of that one datapoint, it feels like working on
stableandsidbut nottestingwould be more unusual than it working ontestingbut notsid, but I don't feel too strongly.