bzr for packaging

[Alexandre Vassalotti]

On 3/29/07, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Yes, that's true. However, I think it could do a bit more, like
picking the right orig.tar.gz when building a older revision.

> > 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)
>

I will have to check it out. Thanks.

By the way, that's also an issue of our tools -- they are all
fragmented and scattered a bit everywhere. Yes, I know that the Unix
tradition is to small programs do one thing well. But, how about a
program that glue in a clean interface all the useful packaging tools?
Anyway, I'm just dreaming again.

-- Alexandre