Vcs branches, debcheckout, and UDD

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jul 06, 2011, at 04:54 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:

>One of the big questions I don't see addressed is packaging versus full
>source branches.  In Kubuntu (and I'm pretty sure Ubuntu Desktop) we use
>packaging branches that only have the debian dir in them.  We've discussed
>this and there wasn't a lot of interest in switching to full source branches.

I tried to touch on that with this bit:

>On Wednesday, July 06, 2011 04:43:00 PM Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> ask Launchpad to essentially make the UDD branch and the Vcs-Bzr branch
>> one and the same, so either approach will work.  This seems trickier since
>> the UDD branch has the full source code, while the Vcs-Bzr branch has only
>> the debian/ directory (and apt-gets the source).

but I agree that this needs more attention.  Although I like having the full
source branches, I can see the appeal of packaging-only branches.  Any
solution needs to be adaptive to both styles of working.

-Barry
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