build-from-branch into the primary archive

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 09:18:31AM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > > 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.

Wrong /and pointed at a UDD branch/?

As I said, it's very unlikely that you'll have stale information here when
the field points at a UDD branch.  Stale data is usually because the field
wasn't changed when merging from Debian.

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