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[James Westby <james.westby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Celso Providelo wrote:
> Resurrecting an old question: do you know why building remote branches
> is not functional in jaunty ? `bzr bd -r REV BRANCH_URL`

I didn't know it was broken, could you file a bug with the trace please?

> Also, how can we cope with the feature-set variation of bzr-builddeb
> across the supported suites ? Should we:
>
> 1. Always build branches on the development chroot
> 2. Use the chroot for the target suite + officially backported
bzr-builddeb
> 3. Use the chroot for the target suite + an PPA overlay with the
> semi-official bzr-builddeb backports

4. Use a separate chunk of code that just takes the parts you need and
want to support, rather than all the functionality.

I was assuming you would work that way, but we can work on packages if
that is what you would like.

Thanks,

James