build-from-branch into the primary archive

[Micah Gersten]

On 02/22/2011 02:20 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> 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
Couldn't bzr import-dsc have helped here?

Micah