Bazaar Package Importer stomps on my changes

[Scott Moser]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Max Bowsher wrote:

> > Am I just doing something wrong ?
>
> My wild guess is that you are being thwarted by the Bazaar Package
> Importer's thoroughly unhelpful idea of how to represent a 3.0 (quilt)
> source package in Bazaar - namely, that it commits the .pc directory and
> all its contents.

Well, possibly.  I recently commited a bzrignore of .pc, but I think that
the last issue I had was prior to having commited that locally.

> Thus, when you did your previous push, the importer came along and
> decided what you pushed didn't match the uploaded package.
>
> It responded by pushing your branch aside to
> lp:~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/natty/cloud-init/natty-201101272214 and
> putting its own in its place.
>
> Now, you've come along and push --overwritten its changes, and... it's
> sulking:
>
> http://package-import.ubuntu.com/status/cloud-init.html
>
> :-)
>
>
> So it seems to me that the root of all this is that the package
> importer's representation of a 3.0 (quilt) package in Bazaar just
> doesn't make sense.
>
> Having the .pc metadata committed into the branch makes making any sorts
> of changes quite unfriendly.

Well, I absolutely agree with that.  I was unaware of the two urls above
(how did you find out about the date'd branch ?)

I guess its likely me fighting the quilt 3.0 representation. If this isn't
resolvable, I figure I'm likely to just revert to using quilt without the
3.0 format.

Thanks for the info though. I think you're probably correct.