Re: [Launchpad-users] upstream + packaging + looms + lp != happiness

[James Westby <jw+debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 27 May 2010 16:18:20 -0400, Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is the sanest way I can currently think of for organizing the upstream
> and packaging branches for two distros and a PPA.  If it works, it seems like
> a nice way to manage things.

I agree that your sketch looks like a good way to organise things.

> Unfortunately, this doesn't work because round tripping the branch through
> Launchpad throws away all the loom information.  Here's the transcript from
> two different machines ('bzr looms' is an alias for 'bzr show-loom'; the
> 'split' thread is an artifact that will go away).
> 
> limelight% bzr looms
> =>ubuntu
>   debian
>   split
>   trunk
> limelight% bzr record
> Loom recorded.    
> limelight% bzr push lp:~barry/computer-janitor/loomified
> Using default stacking branch /~computer-janitor-hackers/computer-janitor/trunk at lp-69637584:///~barry/computer-janitor
> Created new stacked branch referring to /~computer-janitor-hackers/computer-janitor/trunk.
> 
> heresy% bzr branch lp:~barry/computer-janitor/loomified
> Branched 240 revision(s).                                                      
> heresy% cd loomified/
> heresy%
> 
> All the threads disappeared when the branch was pulled to machine heresy.
> Maybe Launchpad doesn't support looms yet?  Maybe the stacking is messing
> things up?  Any other suggestions or comments?

No idea, sorry. Have you filed a bug for tracking purposes?

Thanks,

James