[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#497156: Bug#497156: import-dsc doesn't work for merged build

James Westby jw+debian at jameswestby.net
Sun Aug 31 12:44:16 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 14:37 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> Am Sonntag, den 31.08.2008, 13:30 +0100 schrieb James Westby:
> > On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 13:02 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > > import-dsc doesn't seem to be able to deal with importing dsc's into
> > > merged-build branches. It imports the full source code, rather than
> > > just debian/.
> > > 
> > > (Hit when importing 1.5-1.1 into the bzr debian packaging branch)
> 
> > I can make it error out on merge branches, but it sounds like you want
> > it to actually do something useful.
> Erroring out would make the behaviour of import-dsc in this case a bit
> less confusing for new users.

Yeah, I'm surprised that I missed it.

> > If the changes are just within debian/ then I think this is possible,
> > should it error out if they aren't?
> Yeah, that would be ideal (though also not entirely trivial, I suspect).

I think it should import, and then check the diff for anything outside
of debian/ and just error then.

Thanks,

James






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