integrate with pull-lp-source
Bug #1740905 reported by
Christian Ehrhardt
This bug affects 1 person
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git-ubuntu |
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
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.
Changed in usd-importer: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
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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.