The append-revisions-only can of worms

[Martin Pool]

On 19 July 2011 09:06, Max Bowsher <_ at maxb.eu> wrote:
m Ubuntu, with the parents being (debian, ubuntu)?
>
> Well... The logic *should* be to have imported into the Debian branch
> first and then merged into the Ubuntu branch, such that this situation
> never arises.
>
> Perhaps we should investigate whether Launchpad's Debian importer could
> run more frequently, or if the UDD importer could query Debian and defer
> Ubuntu imports that appear to be syncs of not-yet-known Debian versions?

I spoke a bit to wgrant about that yesterday and it seemed at least
possible.  I filed <https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/812597>.

It seems like deferral won't be feasible: doing it on Launchpad would
add latency on lp for people who don't care about the ordering;
secondly we can't totally reliably tell whether the upload was
expected in Debian(?) or whether it was uploaded direct to Ubuntu.

m