Re: First impressions (long)

2009-12-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 17:12 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: > I did go down one false path, and Colin had to teach me about patch systems > and dpatch in particular. I think bzr-builddeb could actually help me not go > down that path, or point me to the right path, so I'll make some concrete > suggest

Re: Graphs for upstream code for packages

2009-12-13 Thread Michael Hudson
Jonathan Lange wrote: > Hey everyone, > > It took longer than I expected, but I've now got graphs showing how > well we are doing for having upstream code for branches. > > https://lpstats.canonical.com/graphs/PackagesWithUpstreamBranchesMain/ > https://lpstats.canonical.com/graphs/PackagesWi

Re: Rewriting Ubuntu branches

2009-12-13 Thread Martin Pool
2009/12/14 James Westby : > Hi, > > I wanted to split this out of the large mail so that we could complete > a design of how this would work. > > Here's my initial proposal based on the feedback from that thread. > >  1) bzr-builddeb decorates pull, merge and perhaps a couple of other >     command

Re: First impressions (long)

2009-12-13 Thread James Westby
On Fri Dec 11 22:12:41 + 2009 Barry Warsaw wrote: > Hi all, > > I think I've actually patched my first Ubuntu package, with much thanks to > Colin and James W for their help. Having done this from essentially no > knowledge of how to do it, and no experience with the tools, James suggested I

Rewriting Ubuntu branches

2009-12-13 Thread James Westby
Hi, I wanted to split this out of the large mail so that we could complete a design of how this would work. Here's my initial proposal based on the feedback from that thread. 1) bzr-builddeb decorates pull, merge and perhaps a couple of other commands to catch the diverged error, and chec

Re: bzr/LP issues from work discussed at UDS

2009-12-13 Thread James Westby
On Thu Dec 03 05:52:25 + 2009 James Westby wrote: > 4) API for creating code imports This is bug 366102. > 5) API for requesting a code import be tried ASAP > > Do Branch.requestMirror() and Branch.last_mirror_attempt refer to > importing to the code if the branch is a vcs-imports one? > >