I think for UDD it is important to have the wt, but I think we could do.better about making the branches subset compatible. The package importer already uses several branches to try and match file ids. This could be another. The history would be divergent, but you could use "bzr merge -rx..y" rather than diff/patch. John =:-> <div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 6, 2011 11:00 PM, "Barry Warsaw" <<a href="mailto:barry@ubuntu.com">barry@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: > On Jul 06, 2011, at 04:54 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >>One of the big questions I don't see addressed is packaging versus full >>source branches. In Kubuntu (and I'm pretty sure Ubuntu Desktop) we use >>packaging branches that only have the debian dir in them. We've discussed >>this and there wasn't a lot of interest in switching to full source branches. > > I tried to touch on that with this bit: > >>On Wednesday, July 06, 2011 04:43:00 PM Barry Warsaw wrote: >>> ask Launchpad to essentially make the UDD branch and the Vcs-Bzr branch >>> one and the same, so either approach will work. This seems trickier since >>> the UDD branch has the full source code, while the Vcs-Bzr branch has only >>> the debian/ directory (and apt-gets the source). > > but I agree that this needs more attention. Although I like having the full > source branches, I can see the appeal of packaging-only branches. Any > solution needs to be adaptive to both styles of working. > > -Barry </div>