On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 08:59:59 +0200, Michael Nelson <michael.nel...@canonical.com> wrote: > I've not heard it discussed... but that could be a great idea. I think > the soyuz diff generation was assumed because its what has always been > used for package diffs (pre-dating package branches)... and I'd > wrongly assumed we'd need diffs between the lucid and derilucid > version).
Note that there may be some tweaks required to loggerhead to get the features we need. > The unknown factors for me so far are: > 1) When a new version of a src package is published, are we > guaranteed that the version is already committed to a bzr branch (for > derived distros also) (for build from branch of course it is, but > normal uploads?) Guaranteed? No. The importer is quicker than the publisher, so it should generally be true for distributions that it imports. > 2) If I have a source publishing record in Launchpad, can I get > directly to the bzr branch and rev number even if it hasn't been built > via a recipe but is a standard upload (I'll follow that up if no-one > beats me to it). No, Launchpad has no facility to store that data as far as I know. It's a simple mapping from (package, series, version) to (branch, tag) though. Thanks, James _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
