Comment 7 for bug 458724

On Sat Oct 24 00:23:17 UTC 2009 Robert Collins wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 00:09 +0000, James Westby wrote:
> > bzr-builddeb isn't used. They are incompatible currently, at the least because
> > of lack of nested tree support.
>
> I'm not sure how nested trees are involved; as bzr doesn't support them
> it seems like neither -builder or -builddeb can be using them....

bzr-builder can be used to create "nested trees", but obviously can't
represent them in bzr, so bzr-builddeb can't pick them up and use them.
It's just one branch inside another. It could be extended to allow
these things to be specified, but as nested trees were moving forwards
waiting for that seemed like the better idea.

> And I realise -builder doesn't use -builddeb, I was meaning that the
> same solution can/should apply.

To some extent, yes.

> Certainly for the things I'm doing I'll be merging normal packaging
> branches in the recipe, so all the builddeb metadata should be present.

Yes.

Thanks,

James