build-from-branch into the primary archive

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 03:57:16PM +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 22 February 2011 13:59, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:

> > The alternative of adding a specialized field in debian/control for packages
> > that should generally only be uploaded from branch so that anyone who tries to
> > dput the package gets some kind of warning (as discussed elsewhere in the
> > thread) would, I think, deal with this case adequately while preserving the
> > option to upload via dput should it REALLY be necessary in some case.

> There seem to be two variables here: does a package upload just give a
> warning, or does it block; and secondly is this configured in the
> package metadata itself or in Launchpad.  On the first point I think
> we absolutely want to have it start out with just a warning.  To be
> more accurate, we will actually start out with no warnings at all, and
> probably only turn them on when people feel that particular teams are
> over the hump of wanting to use it all the time.

> Regarding where it is done, I see no problem with doing it in
> debian/control.  If it's configured in the package itself we would
> have the option to give a warning at the time people run dput rather
> than later sending mail back from Soyuz complaining about it.

If you're going to put it in debian/control, then I think a Vcs-Bzr: field
pointing at a UDD branch already encodes this information - 'apt-get source'
already warns about it, we might as well have dput warn on the same thing.

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Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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