[17:10] <simon_weber> Hi all! I'm hoping to copy a build from a ppa into mine. It's an old package and no longer published, so it doesn't show in the "copy packages" interface. Given a link to the build result, what's the easiest way to copy the result to my ppa?
[17:11] <simon_weber> I think I just need the .changes file and the files it references, then I give those to dput?
[17:11] <dobey> you can't dput binary packages to a PPA no
[17:13] <rbasak> Maybe the copy-package tool from ubuntu-archive-tools can do it?
[17:14] <dobey> what ppa are you trying to copy from?
[17:14] <simon_weber> this is the particular build I'm looking to copy: https://launchpad.net/~chris-lea/+archive/ubuntu/redis-server/+build/6654221
[17:14] <simon_weber> (yes, I know it's very old, haha)
[17:16] <simon_weber> this seems relevant, maybe? http://askubuntu.com/a/475298
[17:16] <simon_weber> I wasn't able to find the copy-package tool you referenced, rbasak
[17:17] <cjwatson> the "copy packages" web interface has a drop-down that you can switch from "Published" to "Superseded" or similar to find such things
[17:18] <cjwatson> the askubuntu link you found does not seem appropriate here
[17:18] <simon_weber> oh, excellent
[17:18] <simon_weber> let me try that
[17:19] <simon_weber> cjwatson: beautiful, that's exactly what I needed
[17:19] <simon_weber> thanks!
[17:19] <cjwatson> np
[23:41] <clivejo> hi folks, when you are building a package on LP, is there any way to get internet access whilst building?
[23:42] <clivejo> for example can you setup a python env where pip can install the requirements
[23:42] <tsimonq2> clivejo: Nope, I believe that's against Debian's rules for packages
[23:42] <tsimonq2> clivejo: Which, in turn, is probably ours.
[23:43] <tsimonq2> clivejo: You should probably ask the archive admins in #ubuntu-release what they're comfortable with.
[23:56] <maxb> I believe the idea is that if you need internet access, it means the source code isn't entirely represented by what's in the source packages and installed binary packages for dependencies
[23:57] <maxb> And that would be undesirable, so no internet access, to enforce that people don't do it
[23:58] <wgrant> Right, the restriction is in place mostly to ensure that we can't not build a fix just because some upstream website has gone away, or some version of the dependencies has changed.
[23:58] <wgrant> There are also issues around providing source for licenses that require it (eg. GPL)
[23:58] <wgrant> A Debian package build on Launchpad can only depend on other packages, not external resources.
[23:59] <tsimonq2> maxb: Exactly.