build-from-branch into the primary archive

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 09:47:15PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 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.

Someone would have to make sure they point to the right place though.
I'd say about 80% of the packages I've looked at they are plain wrong.

-apw