On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 06:14:19PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: > >On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 04:07:47PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: > >> I think we should (almost) never allow users to push to ubuntu: or > >> debianlp: > >> branches, or at least, highly discourage it. Just do the upload and let > >> the > >> importer create the new revisions and it seems like that avoids a lot of > >> headaches and failures.
> >If we're not going to allow pushing to the branches, then I don't think > >they're useful at all. It's *only* for having rich branch history that I > >use these branches, and if they're not going to be usable that way I would > >discontinue my use of them altogether, moving the packages I maintain > >somewhere else for their primary VCS. > That's interesting, because I think source branches have a lot of benefit > over apt-get source by themselves. They do, but those aren't actually the options I'm picking between. I'm picking between being able to use lp:ubuntu/$package as the VCS for the packages I maintain, and having to maintain the VCS elsewhere. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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