UDD breakdown when building orig.tar.gz from upstream VCS

[Barry Warsaw]

On Feb 15, 2012, at 04:35 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:

>"bzr merge-upstream" should help here. You can pass it a tarball and a
>version. Of course, these will have to be different than the previous
>release (since it's a new upstream version). In your case, I would imagine something like:
>
>$ cvs export -d :pserver:... fgfs-atlas-20120209.tar.gz
>$ cd packaging-branch
>$ bzr merge-upstream --version 0.3+cvs20120209
>~/fgfs-atlas-20120209.tar.gz
>
>This will import the pristine tar data into the packaging branch as a
>new revision, merge the changes into the packaging branch and add a
>new changelog entry "0.3+cvs20120209-0ubuntu1".

Yeesh, why did I not think of that?!

That totally makes sense, and I'll try it if the same situation comes up again
(or I need to update the package to a newer CVS).

Thanks!
-Barry
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