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[Thomas Christensen <christensenthomas@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks guys.

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 2:21 AM Reinhard Tartler <siretart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>>
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