Fixing import errors and discouraging pushes

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 06:14:19PM -0500, Barry Warsaw 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.

They do, but those aren't actually the options I'm picking between.  I'm
picking between being able to use lp:ubuntu/$package as the VCS for the
packages I maintain, and having to maintain the VCS elsewhere.

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