> On 28 January 2010 12:04, Scott Kitterman <ubu...@kitterman.com> wrote: >>> On 28 January 2010 06:14, Reinhard Tartler <siret...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >> ... >>>> Ã - download the orig.tar.gz/orig.tar.bz2 files from debian >>>> >>> >>> The branches are pristine-tar enabled you can just >>> "$ bzr bd" them and a tarball will appear in your tarball's directory. >> >> Right, but which tarball? Â It's not always obvious. Â It's important >> that >> we md5sum match Debian [1]. Â In cases where we don't we end up having >> to >> do fake syncs once the differences between Debian and Ubuntu are >> resolved. >> > > Well just pick your favorite package branch and inspect it with $bzr > visualise or the kde equivalent. The import is quite good. > > Original tarballs are taken from debian and are imported using > pristine-tar into the "upstream" branch nick. Then the debian > packaging is done on the "debian" branch nick which has upstream as > ancestor and then the ubuntu is another branch nick which is diverging > from the "debian" one again. > > So from the resulting lp:ubuntu/package you can branch off any > upstream release, debian or ubuntu package release. And each revision > has the corresponding pristine-tarball delta, such that all tarballs > can be regenerated with identical checksums as in the debian archive. > > So the branch import has been engineered really well in this respect > and we should not have fake syncs anymore..... > > This even scales to when the branches will get rebased ontop of the > upstream releases, cause the pristine-tarball delta will be committed > into a new branch nick based off upstream branch adding all the > Makefile.in's and etc with the tarball delta. > > Can't remember either Karmic or Jaunty UDS had a video on this UDD > master plan with all the explanations.
Then maybe the description of what is happening just needs to be improved because as I said in the bug, it sure appears to be looking upstream and getting the tarball from there before it checks Debian. I understand the theory, it isn't clear to me that's what's happening. Scott K -- ubuntu-distributed-devel mailing list ubuntu-distributed-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-distributed-devel
