Comment 4 for bug 347755

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote : Re: [Bug 347755] Re: No UI for registering package branches

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