[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#518097: Bug#518097: bzr-loom: should provide ‘get-orig-source’ target

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Hi Ben,

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 15:50 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> package bzr-loom
> tags 518097 + patch
> block 518097 by 518098
> thanks
> 
> On 04-Mar-2009, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Debian policy §4.9 recommends implementing a ‘get-orig-source’ target,
> > for automating the fetch of the corresponding source tarball when it
> > is not a simple matter of downloading from a URL.
> 
> Attached is a Bazaar patch bundle, implementing the above target via a
> shell program. The program parses the Vcs-Bzr field (so this is
> blocked by bug#518098) from ‘debian/control’, and the revision number
> from the upstream version number in the changelog. It then exports the
> revision to an appropriately-named tarball.
Thanks for the patch.

Vcs-Bzr shouldn't be used by get-orig-source, as it is intended for the
branch with the packaging, not for the upstream branch. get-orig-source,
otoh is intended for the upstream source. get-orig-source should also
retrieve the most recent version of upstream rather than the last on in
debian/changelog, as policy mentions.

Some of the other bzr-* packages already implement this by utilizing
bzr-builddeb and a much more trivial get-orig-source target.

> The patch bundle is against the Alioth branch
> bzr+ssh://bzr.debian.org/bzr/pkg-bazaar/bzr-loom/experimental/ which
> is accessible to me only because I have an account there.
You should also be able to use nosmart+http://...

Cheers,

Jelmer
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