Thanks for writing this Scott. It touches on a couple things I've been
meaning to write about myself.
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubu...@kitterman.com> wrote:
> 1. The most important change would be to have some kind of a wrapper for
> getting the source. It would be nice to have a script that would download
> branches for the common ancestor, current Ubuntu, and current Debian branches,
> and do the proposed merge. Without local access to the different versions of
> the package, it is very difficult to know if you've got a correct merge.
I think this is an important point. Especially with MoM not updating
correctly, we really need something to help ease people into these new
methods. I think a grab-merge like script would go a long way to
helping both simplify the repetitive work as well as introduce people
to UDD methods.
I've personally been using a hackish shell script that I'd be
embarrassed to distributed. It basically does:
bzr init-repo $PACKAGE
cd $PACKAGE
bzr branch lp:ubuntu/$PACKAGE $PACKAGE-ubuntu
bzr branch lp:debian/$PACKAGE $PACKAGE-debian
bzr branch $PACKAGE-ubuntu working-tree
cd working-tree
bzr merge-package ../$PACKAGE-debian
Then uses Bryce's merge_changelog script and 'dch -i -m' to handle the
repetitive changelog stuff.
Ideally, the script would also produce something along the lines of
MoM's REPORT, listing the conflicts and giving instructions on how to
proceed.
> In the old method, I would debuild -S (-sa if needed) -v and have a package
> ready for uploading.
>
> bzr builddeb -S -- -v4.6-1ubuntu1
>
> Now this one looks easy, but has the hidden trap of bzr builddeb providing
> only -S from dpkg-buildpackage and requiring an extra flag to pass other
> options to dpkg-buildpackage ("--"). I think this needs a rethink [2].
I didn't know that was even possible. I've been using
bzr bd --builder="debuild -S -v4.6-1ubuntu1"
I very much agree with:
> 3. As mentioned, the bzr builddeb interface and documentation needs work.
> Ideally it would act similarly to debuild and pass all the dpkg-buildpackage
> options to it without special flags. Yet another interface that is almost the
> same is problematic.
- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
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