build-from-branch into the primary archive

[Barry Warsaw]

On Feb 22, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote:

>One point I don't understand is why people insist they need to leave work in 
>progress on the official branch?  bzr is a DVCS, so why don't people make 
>their own branch and then only push to the official branch when it is, in 
>fact, ready for upload.  If we did it that way, then pushing to the official 
>branch could be limited to people who could upload the package, build from 
>branch could be triggered by the push, and there'd be no problem with dput 
>uploads overwriting work in progress.

I work that way, but independent dputs are still a problem.  In a recent
computer-janitor case, the changelog entry for the dput didn't show up in the
source branch.  So I see 2.1.0-0ubuntu1 but no 2.1.0-0ubuntu2.  I had to merge
the actual change manually into the trunk branch, then bump the version to
2.1.0-0ubuntu3 with a note about why -0ubuntu2 is skipped.

-Barry
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