bzr ppa updates

[Gary van der Merwe]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
> I've just sent bzr 2.1.2 for Dapper into the main bzr ppa
> <https://launchpad.net/~bzr/+archive/>.  This PPA is the single best
> choice for people installing on Ubuntu who want to go to a major
> version beyond what was in the OS release.  I'm going to do the later
> releases now.
>
> In the course of doing that I updated lp:~bzr/bzr/packaging-dapper to
> have what I think is a more typical use of bzr-builddeb, which is that
> it includes all the files in the tarball. You should now be able to
> bring in new updates using something like
>
>  bzr merge-upstream  --version 2.1.2 -v ../Releases/bzr-2.1.2.tar.gz
> ~/bzr/bzr-2.1.2
>
> I will send a doc update to describe this in
> <http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/bzr.dev/developers/ppa.html> then we
> could delete some of our own scripts that duplicate bzr builddeb.
>
> Comments/objections very welcome...

Cool. I've never used  bzr merge-upstream. I would like to try use it
to build a 2.2 ppa.

When I do this, I plan to create lp:~bzr/bzr/packaging-beta-*