what if tracker url changes?

[Stefan Monnier]

> The existing code maps an alias to an URL (= existing level of
> indirection) at commit time, using a per-user locally, manually (and
> of course often wrongly) specified mapping in bazaar.conf.

A first step to improve the current state of things without changing the
"store an immutable URL" approach would be to let the mapping be
specified in-tree rather than only in the bazaar.conf file.

This way, old URLs can't be fixed, but at least each and every committer
doesn't have to manually edit his bazaar.conf.

Another way to help would be to provide one more pre-defined bug-tracker
(beside deb/lp/gnome), which would correspond to the bazaar.conf setting of:

         bugtracker_bug_url = {id}
or maybe
         bugtracker_url_url = {id}

so people can use --fixes bug:<foo> (or --fixes url:<foo> if you prefer)
without needing any configuration.


        Stefan