Package branch freshness

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 7/19/2011 1:20 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Jul 19, 2011, at 09:09 AM, Martin Pool wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for testing this so quickly, Barry.
> 
> No problem.  I'm *very* excited to see this get added.
> 
>> Some of the verbosity was my idea, just to make sure that people
>> understood this was specifically a check of the packaging branch
>> against the published package, and so they wouldn't confuse this with
>> a message about the wt being out of date.  I agree putting the numbers
>> at the start would be easier to scan, and your other form would also
>> work pretty well.
> 
> Cool.  I know this is easily bikeshedded, so I trust y'all to come up with
> nice output.

Well, honestly, I trust your opinion more than mine. Mostly because it
is something that you actively use. I do a lot of programming, but I
don't do a lot of packaging day-to-day.

> 
>> I wonder if we should give a url or some kind of advice on what to do
>> in the case it is out of date.
> 
> That's an excellent idea.  I'd love to have some pages on mitigation
> strategies, probably in the wiki to foster quicker turn around and wider
> participation.   Now that it's been condensed, a subpage under
> 
>     https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributedDevelopment
> 
> would be perfect I think.  I can create the subpage if you want, but I'd love
> to have the bzr team help fill in the content.
> 
> FWIW, what I generally do is to use `bzr import-dsc` to get a branch I can
> hack on.  It doesn't fix the import problems, but it generally allows me to
> get unblocked for the immediate task.
> 
> -Barry
> 

So that is "import a new revision with just the latest tip, ignoring all
the history" ?

John
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