Allow linking a package upload to a bzr revision
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Hi,
It would be great if a package upload could be linked to a bzr revision, here's
why.
I commit a candidate fix for a bug in my branch, and push it up under my name. It is
then linked to the bug report (with revision information please) so that users can
grab a branch that fixes it, and see the change.
As installing from a branch is often a pain, I also push to one of my PPAs. If that ould
be linked to the revision, then it would be possible for the bug page to say something
like:
revision 2145 of lp:~james-w/.... attempts to fix this bug.
This fix is also available in the following PPAs:
(Revision ancestry checks would be great, and pointing to Ubuntu archives as well)
Populating the link isn't something that would be easy to do right now, but we can work
on that. Having somewhere in LP to do it would be good though, as we can do it for
official package branches already.
With the changes to bug-branch linking that are being discussed this could get even
cooler, but I think including packages in this is something that we can be working on.
We currently do package->bug linking with "LP: #<number>" in the changelog, but
that only works for official packages currrently. Making that become a package<->bug
link for PPAs may in fact become a better way to solve that, but having the package<->
revision links would be useful elsewhere.
Thanks,
James
Changed in launchpad: | |
status: | Incomplete → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Hi James,
this looks very similar to bug 246166. Is it a dupe or am I mistaken?
In any case, see also bug 374931 and bug 179873 which would also cover the "This fix is also available in the following PPAs" in your suggestion.