Wondering how to fix up a category of import failure

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Thu Jun 23 08:48:05 UTC 2011


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> 
> Options:
> 
> A) Move the tag to match what the importer expects. Accept that the same
> package version tag exists (for example) in the maverick branch pointing
> to r8, but in the natty branch pointing to r9, which have slightly
> different trees.
> 
> B) Push the extra revision back into the earlier branches and move the
> tag there too. (Even though the extra revision has a branch nick with a
> later series name than the earlier branches)
> 
> C) Nuke the entire import, and let the importer do better this time.
> 
> D) Something else?
> 
> 
> Max.
> 
> 

I personally like C when reasonable. However reasonable means that
nobody else has started working on the project (since creating new
revisions will break their existing changes). Otherwise, I would go for
B. branch-nick doesn't mean all that much.

John
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