[Pkg-bazaar-maint] bzr-gtk is a release behind

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Hi Reinhard,

On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 14:22 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Wouter van Heyst <larstiq at larstiq.dyndns.org> writes:
> 
> > http://pkg-bazaar.alioth.debian.org/0.16/ has bzr-gtk 0.16.0
> 
> I've imported the bzr-gtk package as described at
> http://wiki.tauware.de/misc:vcs-packaging to 
> sftp://bzr.debian.org/bzr/pkg-bazaar/bzr-gtk/unstable
> 
> I also uploaded bzr-gtk to unstable.

Any reason for not using the upstream branch here? The upstream branch
is neither big, nor does bzr-gtk require any autogenerated files that
are not versioned. 

Using the upstream branch (which sets tags for releases) makes a couple
of things easier:

 * seeing what changes are missing from upstream (or debian) can be done
using bzr diff
 * updating to the next upstream is just a 'bzr merge
-rtag:bzr-gtk-0.16.0' command, no need to download/verify tarballs
 * it makes it easier for upstream to cherry pick changes that are
available in the debian branch

By extending bzr-builddeb, we could even not have to worry about
upstream at all, since bzr-builddeb can simply generate the .orig.tar.gz
by doing something along the lines of 'bzr export
-rtag:PROJECTNAME-VERSION PROJECTNAME_VERSION.orig.tar.gz'.
Cheers,

Jelmer

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