UDD importer making a nuisance of itself with v3 source format branches

[Max Bowsher]

I've just had a conversation with cjwatson and slangasek on
#ubuntu-release about the importer making a nuisance of itself by
declaring a perfectly reasonable commit to be a collision / difference,
and replacing it with one of its own.

The key pain point here is the .pc/ directory.

It's practically impossible to maintain a .pc/ directory checked into
VCS without unnatural jumping through hoops. As a result, packages being
seriously developed in bzr by humans, rather than being primarily
imported, tend NOT to have a .pc/ :

<cjwatson> patches applied doesn't have to imply .pc in vcs; it's
unfortunate that the importer took that particular decision
<cjwatson> (I've been using patches-applied-in-bzr since well before the
importer did, *without* .pc)

I think, as a short term fix, we should modify the collision-is-clean
check to ignore the absence of a .pc directory in packager-committed
revisions.

Please have a think and let me know about any objections - we should
probably treat this as urgent since it causes severe annoyance with UDD.

Max.

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