No UI for registering package branches

[Jonathan Lange]

Although package branches can be pushed up on staging, there's no web UI for registering package branches. There should be.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

The API's don't seem to allow registering mirrored packaging branches either, both:

bzr register-branch --product debian/sid/bzr-svn --branch-name trunk http://bzr.debian.org/pkg-bazaar/bzr/unstable

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

This seems increasingly important - without this change we will have to blow away some of the current branches including their history , when import branches start being supported and we start importing from the original branch rather than creating one based on the packages in the archive.

[Tim Penhey (thumper)]

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:08:46 Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> This seems increasingly important - without this change we will have to
> blow away some of the current branches including their history , when
> import branches start being supported and we start importing from the
> original branch rather than creating one based on the packages in the
> archive.

Is this for code imports?

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 12:13 +0000, Tim Penhey wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:08:46 Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > This seems increasingly important - without this change we will have to
> > blow away some of the current branches including their history , when
> > import branches start being supported and we start importing from the
> > original branch rather than creating one based on the packages in the
> > archive.
>
> Is this for code imports?

Code imports for those Debian packaging branches that are maintained in
Git/CVS/Subversion/Mercurial and mirrors for the branches maintained in
Bazaar natively.

(See also http://upsilon.cc/~zack/stuff/vcs-usage/ for a graph of the
VCS'es used for the packaging branches in Debian)

Cheers,

Jelmer

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

There is API support for this.