bzr for packaging

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 03:09:11PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> 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)

debcommit does the opposite, as I understand it (and Alexandre): it creates
the bzr log based on the Debian changelog.  This is more like what I want,
personally.

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 - mdz