your thoughts wanted on bzr team UDD focus

James Westby james.westby at canonical.com
Thu Dec 3 22:16:59 GMT 2009


On Thu Dec 03 16:05:18 -0500 2009 John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> So how did Ubuntu find "C" such that it isn't an ancestor of "G"? Are
> they using different upstreams? Or are these tarball imports such that G
> secretly should be a descendant of C, but nobody recorded that fact?

The latter.

Debian and Ubuntu worked independently at that time, so we can't add a
bzr parent, however, there is a logical relationship there. This discrepancy
is the cause of the issue.

The problem is aggravated by the fact that we don't currently have complete
history for Debian.

Thanks,

James



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