On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:10:35PM +0000, James Westby wrote:
> 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.

Actually it could, with git grafts files, you can fake some history
relations which help in those cases, of course if upstreams are not in a
git-importable VCS it won't help.
-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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