[Pkg-bazaar-maint] builddeb questions

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Hi James,

On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 19:13 +0100, James Westby wrote:
> I am working on import code for builddeb at the moment, and I wanted to
> ask for help on a couple of questions.
> 
> The first is tagging, some of the code needs to be identify certain
> revisions, so far I have only needed to identify pure upstream versions,
> and so I used a tag of
> 
>   upstream-<version>
> 
> for those. Does that look right, or should it just be '<version>'?
Personally, I prefer upstream-<version> as well.

> I can see a need soon to identify released versions of the package, so
> again I would like to design a tag scheme for this. It could just be the
> version number, but there are things like uploads to different
> distributions to consider. It would be possible to prefix the tag with
> the name of the distribution the upload is on its way to (from the
> changelog), but that makes it harder to actually find a version again.
> 
> Perhaps I should just assume that uploads to different distributions
> (including things like etch-backports, stable-proposed-updates) go in a
> different branch, so just the version number is used.
> 
> Has anyone got any bright ideas?
I'm not quite sure I understand the problem here. upstream-<version>
would match the current .orig tarball, no? In the same way, a tag coul;d
be set for the debian/ubuntu version. E.g. you could have bzr-svn-0.3.2
set by upstream for the upstream 0.3.2 release and have a tag
bzr-svn-0.3.2-1 for debian and bzr-svn-0.3.2-1ubuntu0 for ubuntu.

I guess I'm missing something here, but I'm not sure what exactly :-)

CHeers,

Jelmer

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