[Pkg-bazaar-commits] r132 ./bzr-builddeb/people/jdw/merge_upstream: Update the spec a little to reflect the current status.

[James Westby]

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revno: 132
committer: James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net>
branch nick: merge_upstream
timestamp: Tue 2007-06-26 22:09:56 +0100
message:
  Update the spec a little to reflect the current status.
modified:
  specs/import-dsc
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=== modified file 'specs/import-dsc'
--- a/specs/import-dsc	2007-06-24 21:21:25 +0000
+++ b/specs/import-dsc	2007-06-26 21:09:56 +0000
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Building a remote branch
 ========================
 
-Status: Draft
+Status: Part Implementation.
 
 Aim
 ---
@@ -12,8 +12,9 @@
 
 The plugin should support creating a branch from these files.
 
-It would also be good if the past versions could be obtained from
-snapshot.debian.net or similar.
+Services like snapshot.debian.net can be used to get old versions of a package,
+and providing a way to import from them automatically will be a great aid to
+maintainers without copies of all of their uploaded packages.
 
 Design
 ------
@@ -69,3 +70,18 @@
 history. In reality the tree of that commit is just the result of applying the
 .diff.gz to the .orig.tar.gz, i.e. the package.
 
+Implementation
+--------------
+
+Currently there is code that implements the above strategy, but it needs some
+more testing and a cleanup. It is also not directly exposed at the UI layer,
+but that shouldn't be too hard to do.
+
+There is a tentative import-snapshot command for importing from
+snapshot.debian.net, but it is more for testing and will probably become an
+option of import-dsc.
+
+Also left to do is implementations for other modes, especially native. Merge
+mode is complicated by the fact that the old packages may have changes outside
+debian/.
+