Feedback on merging via bzr

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Do, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:55:07 (CET), Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:

> On 28 January 2010 10:09, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> On Do, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:01:37 (CET), Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> it would be great if grab-merge could additionally
>>>>  - check the freshness of the import branches
>>>>  - 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.
>>
>> I expected that as well, but it didn't work with the xine-lib package.
>>
>
> I think it's a bug. Was it you who added .bzr-builddeb folder with
> Native config?

That's interesting: obviously the debian import is faulty: in the source
pacakge published at
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xine-lib/xine-lib_1.1.17-1.dsc,
there is no .bzr-builddeb/default.conf, but in lp:debian/xine-lib is.

I remember that I did play around with bzr on the xine-lib package, but
I abandoned this idea. For this reason it was removed from debian.

This indeed looks like a bug.

>>> That's documented already in the Distributed Development wiki. See
>>> tips section [1]
>>
>> which requires developers to open up yet another tool. Having the
>> documentation at hand improves the workflow espc. when the wiki is down
>> or you don't have a decently fast internet connection.
>>
>
> Fair enough =) then it should probably live in the bzr builddeb plugin
> as one of the help topics.
> Cause you need it to work UDD style with packages anyway ;-)

indeed

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