[06:29] <rocketnine> hello.  i recently received a bug report for a small python project i'm hosting on a ppa via source package releases.  here's the bug: https://github.com/tslocum/aafm/issues/61
[06:30] <rocketnine> he is using debian, and i am aiming to provide both debian and ubuntu compatible packages from this ppa
[06:30] <rocketnine> the conflict seems to be that it requires python:any which works on an ubuntu system, but debian gets confused and can't meet it
[06:30] <rocketnine> i could be wrong, this is just what i have found so far
[06:54] <wgrant> rocketnine: PPAs build packalges for Ubuntu, not for Debian. However, this sort of package will often work for Debian too if you're careful.
[06:55] <wgrant> It looks likl thaat user tried to install a package built for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on a Debian wheezy system. wheezy's more than a year behind 14.04.
[06:56] <rocketnine> i see
[06:56] <wgrant> A package built for an older Ubuntu release (12.04 would be your best bet) might work on wheezy.
[06:56] <rocketnine> i'll give that a shot, thanks
[06:57] <wgrant> but in general you can't expect binary packages to work cross-distro, and especially not backwards.
[06:57] <rocketnine> it is a source package though
[06:57] <rocketnine> or am i mis understanding how it is delivered as a package
[06:59] <wgrant> you upload a source package to Launchpad, and it builds a binary package for each architcture of the release you uploaded to.
[06:59] <wgrant> apt-get install downloads binary packages.
[07:00] <rocketnine> got it