Feedback on merging via bzr

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Thu Jan 28 12:04:14 GMT 2010


> On 28 January 2010 06:14, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at ubuntu.com> wrote:
...
>> Â - download the orig.tar.gz/orig.tar.bz2 files from debian
>>
>
> The branches are pristine-tar enabled you can just
> "$ bzr bd" them and a tarball will appear in your tarball's directory.

Right, but which tarball?  It's not always obvious.  It's important that
we md5sum match Debian [1].  In cases where we don't we end up having to
do fake syncs once the differences between Debian and Ubuntu are resolved.

Scott K

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bzr-builddeb/+bug/510312



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