Fixing import errors and discouraging pushes

[Barry Warsaw]

On Dec 03, 2012, at 03:04 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:

>On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 04:07:47PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> I think we should (almost) never allow users to push to ubuntu: or debianlp:
>> branches, or at least, highly discourage it.  Just do the upload and let the
>> importer create the new revisions and it seems like that avoids a lot of
>> headaches and failures.
>
>If we're not going to allow pushing to the branches, then I don't think
>they're useful at all.  It's *only* for having rich branch history that I
>use these branches, and if they're not going to be usable that way I would
>discontinue my use of them altogether, moving the packages I maintain
>somewhere else for their primary VCS.

That's interesting, because I think source branches have a lot of benefit over
apt-get source by themselves.  For example, I like branching ubuntu:foo in a
local shared repo, then doing further branches for various bug fixes or other
development.

Letting the package importer update the branch seems akin to rebasing on the
current source branch once you've done the upload.

-Barry
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