integrate with pull-lp-source

[Christian Ehrhardt ]

At some point if we consider all things stable we should try to get close to peoples common patterns.
That so far mostly is pull-lp-source which we could add a --git option which would make it use git ubuntu.

I'm not sure if that is reasonably doable as long as we have "only" a snap and not a package.
It could be --git is "trying to" if git ubuntu is available.

We should also add a --tgz option which does the default and further down the road that could then switch the default from --tgz to --git.

This clearly is wishlist, but interesting enough that I wanted to document it.

[Nish Aravamudan (nacc)]

I'm on the fence about this. `pull-lp-source`, `pull-debian-source` are for pulling down and extracting the uploaded tarballs of a source upload. The latter, for instance, does not talk to alioth, which it could now.

I would suggest this be proposed to a non-git-ubuntu forum (ubuntu-devel@?) and see what people say. It seems easier to just say, stop using `pull-lp-source` when this would actually be useful (all packages imported) rather than adding a try/except dependency in pull-lp-source. Also, that path would end up pulling down a *lot* of data, when a user might only want a little bit.

IMO, `pull-{lp,debian}-source` and `git ubuntu` satisfy two different use-cases.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

I'm ok declaring this a not-wanted idea.
I just didn't want to loose it without hearing other opinions.

Also potential suggestion on the discussion platform of the other tools requires that git ubuntu lives and is known for a while, so lets close this one here (for now).

[Robie Basak (racb)]

For reference, ddstreet has proposed an overhaul of pull-*-source here: https://code.launchpad.net/~ddstreet/ubuntu-dev-tools/+git/ubuntu-dev-tools/+merge/322863

Perhaps the two thoughts can be integrated somehow :)

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

> Perhaps the two thoughts can be integrated somehow :)

I would LOVE it if one of you could actually review and merge my patches. They've been sitting waiting for many months.