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

[Ben Finney]

On 04-Mar-2009, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> 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.

Okay. I presumed from the contents of the branch that it was also
serving as the upstream branch. Since that's not the case, what is the
upstream branch public URL?

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

Unless they produce a “pristine source” tarball, which AFAIK isn't
what ‘bzr-builddeb’ does, they're not correctly implementing the
‘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://...

As it turns out, the plain ‘http://foo’ URL works fine once bug#518098
is addressed on the client side.

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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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