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Build OpenAFS Ubuntu Packages
This builds openafs source packages and, with the publishing steps, pushes them to be built by as an Ubuntu PPA.
OpenDev has traditionally kept separate OpenAFS packages in a PPA which are used by production hosts. In the past the LTS distro versions have had bugs, or lacked support for architectures/kernels (ARM64 + HWE kernels, practically) we needed -- necessitating keeping separate, fresh versions.
Upstream packages keep a PPA at https://launchpad.net/~openafs/+archive/ubuntu/stable
As much as possible, we generally import and use their debian/* infrastructure (including patches, etc.) as a base here. This PPA doesn't build all the architectures we need, but also isn't focused on the immediate needs of OpenDev production; thus despite it's regular maintence it is still helpful for us to have our own package builds.
These problems are much less with current distros (>= 2022) and openafs 1.8 series; our goal is to generally carry no differences.
Note the openafs-rpm-package-build jobs are a counter-part to this, as OpenAFS hasn't been available on RPM distros. We try to keep these in sync so our infrastructure is more or less at the same level.