Ubuntu Distributed Development

udd and native packages do not play nicely together

Bug #702503 reported by Barry Warsaw
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Bug Description

udd doesn't work well with native packages, such as computer-janitor. Two problems in particular occur frequently:

* You cannot merge between the Ubuntu branch and the trunk. E.g. ubuntu:computer-janitor and lp:computer-janitor have no common ancestor so you can't merge from the latter into the former.

* When someone commits changes to the Ubuntu branch, the version numbers can get skewed from the trunk. E.g. in the former, Matthias committed 2.0.4-0ubuntu2 to force a Python 2.7 rebuild, however when I committed fixes to the trunk, my 2.0.4-0ubuntu2 was a different change.

I don't know what the solution is, but I think right now you're pretty much forced to reconcile differences by hand. :(

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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote :

mvo says this also affects:

* software center
* update manager
* language selector
* update notifier
* checkbox (?)
* gdebi
* python-apt
* apt

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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote :

You also can't use merge proposals effectively to trigger sponsor uploads to the distro because mp's against trunk don't include ~ubuntu-branches.

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 702503] Re: udd and native packages do not play nicely together

What you're meant to do here is ask james_w to bless the upstream as
basis for the import branch, and then it will sync things up.

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