bzr for packaging

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:11:36AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman [2007-03-27 12:19 -0700]:
> > If the former, how do you go about merging new upstream releases?
> 
> Once we will have a reliable bzr import of upstream versions/RCS, this
> might be beneficial, but right now it would just waste bandwidth
> without giving any visible benefits. For a new upstream release I just
> rm everything but debian/ and unpack the new orig.tar.gz.

I don't think it provides more than trivial benefit for a package where only
debian/ is in revision control.  It won't help to merge your changes,
because they're stored as diffs.
> 
> > Do you use a tool like debcommit for committing your changes?
> 
> Yes. I wrote http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/scripts/bzrdc ages ago
> ('bzr debian commit') and have used it so far. A few weeks ago I
> actually discovered debcommit, but (1) that doesn't ask me for
> confirmation and (2) old habits die hard :).

(1) is trivial to fix; why not add that to debcommit and create an alias to
help you tackle (2)? :-)  Better to standardize on tools which are in the
distribution so that everyone benefits from improvements.

-- 
 - mdz