[23:38] <teward> is there a way to request temporary ARM builds on a PPA for testing purposes to make sure that it won't constantly FTBFS for a given release?
[23:43] <teward> the next question: to request ARM builds, do I have to be an admin of the team that owns the PPAs, or is being the primary package maintainer of the PPA enough?
[23:43] <wgrant> teward: I can enable qemu-user armhf and/or arm64 builds on your PPA.
[23:44] <wgrant> You must be a member of the owning team.
[23:44] <teward> which i am... granted the 'test' ppa would be one under my own namespace
[23:44] <teward> wgrant: i need to test a single package upload once to see if it FTBFS for precise like I think it will - is that doable?
[23:44] <teward> (to a test PPA dedicated for this build test)
[23:45] <wgrant> That's doable, but would it make more sense to have a PPA that you can just use for packages for which you want ARM builds?
[23:46] <wgrant> There's no fundamental need for it to be one-off.
[23:46] <teward> wgrant: indeed, but there's two problems.  (1) the nginx users want arm builds.  (2) i'm indifferent.  (3) nginx team owner is against it.
[23:46] <teward> i have a solution though, can I give you two PPAs and you turn it on there, and if it consistently FTBFS then we just disable ARM builds going forward?
[23:47] <teward> the NGINX PPAs actually get packages in them after a staging PPA builds them (just a direct copy over)
[23:47] <teward> with the two PPAs being as follows; https://launchpad.net/~teward/+archive/ubuntu/nginx-devel-testing https://launchpad.net/~teward/+archive/ubuntu/nginx-stable-testing
[23:48] <teward> wgrant: assuming, of course, ARM packages can be copied into a PPA without ARM builds enabled - i think it was proven it *can* be done in that manner, but i don't remember :P
[23:49] <wgrant> teward: Why on earth is the nginx team owner against it?
[23:50] <teward> wgrant: no idea - MTecknology (the guy with Administrator status) has been "Why?" ever since the first request hit my email
[23:50] <teward> ultimately I maintain the PPAs, but meh
[23:50] <wgrant> Ah.
[23:50] <wgrant> I've enabled armhf on both of those.
[23:50] <teward> wgrant: thanks, assuming they build the binaries can be copied over without issue?
[23:50] <wgrant> The binaries will copy fine to a PPA without armhf enabled. The flag just controls builds.
[23:50] <teward> thanks
[23:51] <teward> wgrant: this may sound a little silly, but is it possible to force a rebuild of the version of a specific source package that already is uploaded to the PPAs, or do I just need to upload again with no changes and a changelog entry saying "No changes - upload to run ARM builds only."
[23:53] <teward> 'cause i'm happy to just push up a no-changes package, but if I can just force a rebuild of `nginx` on each of the supported releases, that saves me a little bandwidth
[23:55] <wgrant> teward: You need to upload a new version, or copy the version over itself.
[23:57] <teward> wgrant: is it possible to copy the same version on top of itself in the same PPA, though?
[23:57] <teward> or will it complain about insufficient version
[23:58] <wgrant> teward: That should work fine, as long as you elect to copy binaries.