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[John Meinel <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/17/2011 4:04 PM, Martin Packman wrote:
> As part of the release process on Thursday, I stopped the package
> importer on jubany. In order to restart it, James Westby told me we
> needed to wait for the branch-distro script to finish running.

...

> 2011-10-14 11:14:55 DEBUG Checking
> ~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/oneiric/etckeeper/oneiric
> 2011-10-14 11:14:55 WARNING New branch at
> lp-internal:///~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/precise/etckeeper/precise is
> stacked on /+branch-id/461905, should be unstacked.
> 2011-10-14 11:14:55 WARNING Old branch at
> lp-internal:///~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/oneiric/etckeeper/oneiric is
> not stacked, should be stacked on
> /~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/precise/etckeeper/precise
> 2011-10-14 11:14:55 WARNING Repository at
> lp-internal:///~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/oneiric/etckeeper/oneiric has
> 71 revisions.

This last one seems funny.

The idea behind the stacking is that all the active development is going
on in the new-release branch (precise), rather than all the old branches
(oneiric, natty, maverick, lucid, ...). We really wanted to avoid the
situation where we ended up with the really active branch being stacked
in a chain of 26 branches. I don't know that we *have* to do something, but
we probably *should*. I'd say high priority buy, but not critical.

John