upload of 0.1.5 done - tagging issues

Stefano Zacchiroli zack at debian.org
Sun Aug 19 09:11:55 UTC 2007


On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 11:00:38AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > Have we considered using bzr tags instead?
> I would muchly prefer this over copying directories. If nobody disagrees
> in a couple of days, I'll go ahead and add the tags to trunk/ (I'll
> upgrade the format first; note bzr >= 0.15 will be needed then), and
> remove the directories?

I'm totally in favour.

Noob question though, let's assume in the future we need to branch a dir
for working on an old version (e.g. one which is in stable). There would
be no problem in the versioning (since the version will probably have a
"+stable" or something), but it's not clear to me how can I start
branching from a given tag name. Can the tag name be used as the
FROM_LOCATION argument of bzr branch? I haven't found any other clue in
the manpage ...

> Any preferences on the tag format? "python-debian_x.y.z-a" is an
> option, with just "x.y.z-a" being another.

Uhm .. as a first though I were for the latter. But (assuming the tags
namespace is "global" and not relative to a given repository subdir) we
may hand up in name clashes if we in the future have the need of
maintaining another debian package in the archive. Unless the tags can
be made relative to a dir I would then go for the former.

Cheers.

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