On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 03:58:42PM -0000, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: > Ya, but I really am uncertain about the point of this whole thing. > This is a native package. The "latest upstream source tarball" is > what will be uploaded. With a native package, there should be no > difference between the latest "upstream" and the current distro > package. They are the same thing. There is no other tarball! Yet the > archive-admins have decided that "native or not, people need to be > able to verify the integrity of a source package from some upstream > source." I don't know why this rule applies to this package and not > the many others that are native, Ubuntu-only packages (including > those accepted this cycle like say ubuntu-drivers-common) that do > not have watch files, get-orig-source targets, or README.source > files. Right, I agree that it doesn't really make sense to have a get-orig-source target in this case - especially since as a native package ubuntu-packaging-guide doesn't actually have a .orig.tar.gz.
I also think that this is a hard requirement, then it should be documented somewhere.. > Sorry for the ranting, now for a real question. =) Is there a better > way to determine the latest tag (not revision) in a bzr branch and > export that than parsing `bzr tags`? (BTW: I'm off to file a bug on > there being not `bzr help tag`) There isn't. See this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/689367 Cheers, Jelmer -- https://code.launchpad.net/~andrewsomething/ubuntu-packaging-guide/get-orig-source/+merge/111700 Your team Ubuntu Packaging Guide Team is subscribed to branch lp:ubuntu-packaging-guide. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-packaging-guide-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-packaging-guide-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
