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[Reinhard Tartler <siretart@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for this!

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016, 14:56 Robert Park <robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 7:15 PM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Maybe we should build from git now?
>
>
> Launchpad's git support is incomplete (you can host git repos, and you
> can build recipes from git repos, but you can't auto-mirror git repos
> from other hosts).
>
> Upon further inspection, the importer seems to be in a bad way indeed:
>
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/266425695/rbose-vcs-imports-emacs-trunk.log
>
> That looks to me like some serious bit-rot and not something that
> rbose is going to have the power to fix (eg this requires code fixes
> directly in launchpad, and I doubt anybody will care to do it seeing
> as bzr is dead).
>
> So as a stop-gap until launchpad supports mirroring git repos, I've
> created a little script that just sort of force-imports git and
> commits it to bzr. It doesn't preserve the commit history but you
> don't need that for the daily package build anyway. Here's the script:
>
>
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~cupstream2distro-maintainers/bileto/trunk/view/head:/scripts/import.sh
>
> And if all goes well, in a few hours (scheduled for 1AM UTC) you
> should see the branch appear here:
>
> https://code.launchpad.net/~ci-train-bot/emacs/imported
>
> At which point I'll trigger new builds of the recipe based on that and
> things should go back to their daily selves.
>
> --
> robru
>