build-from-branch into the primary archive

[Martin Pitt]

Barry Warsaw [2011-02-17 15:08 -0500]:
> Are you saying that you want to preserve dput as an upload option forever?  Do
> you see a future where dput *isn't* the interface for uploading a new package?

I strongly feel that we need to keep dput around for a long while.
While we are using bzr very extensively now, there are legitimate
cases where it's just impractical to do. In particular this affects
packages which are co-maintained in git together with Debian
(LibreOffice, udisks, upower, etc.), cases where our package is a git
branch of upstream (linux), or autogenerated packages which aren't
suitable for revision control at all (language packs, ubuntu-meta). 

It would be an utter waste of bandwidth, storage space, CPU power, and
most of all human patience to import these into bzr for the sole
reason of uploading them.

Martin
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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)
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