build-from-branch into the primary archive

[Scott Kitterman]

On Saturday, February 19, 2011 10:44:22 am Martin Pitt wrote:
> Scott Kitterman [2011-02-19 10:09 -0500]:
> > On Saturday, February 19, 2011 08:47:04 am Martin Pitt wrote:
> > > While we shouldn't disable it in general, ever (see my other reply),
> > > I'd highly welcome disabling dput on a per-package basis. I waste a
> > > lot of time cleaning up behind people who just upload one of "my"
> > > packages without committing their changes to bzr.
> > 
> > Except, as you know, they aren't yours.
> 
> I meant "packages which I (or desktop team in general) touch a lot".
> But anyway, the ownership isn't important here, it's the process: if a
> package has a careful and complete history in bzr, and often enough
> unreleased stuff in it, it's a nuisance to see that being clobbered by
> normal dput uploads which didn't respect the Vcs-Bzr: field.

Perhaps a reasonable middle ground would be some new X-USE-UDD field (pick a 
better name please) in debian/control and a changet to dput that would either 
ask an "are you sure y/N" question or require -f to upload.  That way it could 
be set without needed any changes on the launchpad end.

Scott K