Distributed development toolset (Re: ArchiveReorganisation and sponsoring)

[Daniel Holbach]

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Emmet Hikory schrieb:
>     I believe this is precisely the point.  For packages that receive
> 0-1 uploads to Ubuntu per cycle, and for which the Debian version is
> essentially clean, but it needs some change (e.g. create /var/run/foo
> at runtime rather than at unpack time) that hasn't been accepted back
> to Debian, the overhead of a VCS as well as processing the merge and
> upload seems extra.

With bzr imports of the package's upstream VCS (use one tool to bisect
and cherry-pick upstream changes and integrate them into the package) it
will make sense to use bzr even for seldomly uploaded packages.

Have a nice day,
 Daniel
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