bzr for packaging

[Martin Pitt]

Hi Alexandre,

Alexandre Vassalotti [2007-03-27 20:55 -0400]:
> I think bzr need to be better integrated with our packaging tools. For
> example, it would really useful to be able pull and build older
> packages versions using bzr. 

Isn't that exactly what bzr provides? For the revisioned part, anyway.
It is still necessary to keep the older orig.tar.gz's around, of
course.

> A way to avoid writing two time my changelogs (the bzr
> and debian one) would be useful too. It would certainly be possible to
> generate a debian changelog template using bzr's commits log.

That's what debcommit does (devscripts package)

> This would probably require to create a new specialized utility, using
> bzrlib, instead of a plugin. I think cramming a full packaging tool
> into a plugin is not the best way to approch the problem. It certainly
> make the tool, in a way, less user-friendly.

/me waves to Scott

In fact we already had the prototype of a tool that aimed to implement
such a tool, hct. Take a look at [1].

Martin

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NoMoreSourcePackages

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