On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 09:28 +0000, James Westby wrote: > Hi, > > If you go visit > > http://package-import.ubuntu.com/ > > you will find bzr branches available for (almost) all Ubuntu source > packages. These branches are a new service available to all Ubuntu > developers.
Hi, Paul suggested that I explain a little bit about how I see this affecting vcs-pkg. In my opinion it doesn't prejudice the aims of vcs-pkg at all. All we are doing in essence is representing existing source packages in bzr. We haven't settled on a set of tools to manage the branches, or a workflow to interact with upstream etc. In fact, as they don't share revision history with any upstream branches that's not really feasible right now. In fact I think this will benefit vcs-pkg quite a bit. Firstly, with lots more people using VCS for packaging we will learn more about the requirements. We will also see some new tools and approaches springing up. It will also provide us with a testbed where we can experiment with things on a larger scale. In a way it has started a clock ticking, in that as this moves forward we will need good answers to a lot of the questions that vcs-pkg is asking, and if vcs-pkg doesn't provide them then other solutions will spring up. It's not going to be rapid progress though, so there will be plenty of time to come up with these answers. Thanks, James _______________________________________________ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list vcs-pkg-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss