UDD health check?

[James Westby]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:27:52 +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.ledkov at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 13 July 2010 18:23, Elliot Murphy <elliot at canonical.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
> >> I asked Barry how he was finding the UDD experience
> > <snip>
> >> Any other suggestions/wishes/hates?
> >
> > I have found UDD very pleasant for doing merges from debian to ubuntu,
> > and I *love* using merge proposals to ask for changes to be sponsored
> > into Ubuntu. When I want to put a python or erlang package into Ubuntu
> > via debian, I end up needing to use SVN and svn-buildpackage which is
> > a completely different world/workflow from UDD and that difference can
> > be a bit overwhelming at first.
> >
> 
> Why not checkout debian/ dir using bzr-svn and add a local
> bzr-builddeb config to use this checkout in merge-mode? =) YMMV.

Actually, Jelmer made it such that bzr-builddeb will detect this and so
it /should/ do the right thing if you just run "bzr bd" in your SVN
checkout of DPMT.

Bugs welcome if it doesn't, or if there are other things we can do to
make this work easier. I'm all for getting collaboration with Debian to
the same point as we are at with UDD just targetting Ubuntu.

I think one issue is that I only really considered "Ubuntu developer
that just sends patches to Debian" and "Ubuntu developer that can upload
the package to Debian," not "Ubuntu developer that can commit to Debian
SVN."

Thanks,

James