On Saturday, February 19, 2011 10:44:22 am Martin Pitt wrote: > Scott Kitterman [2011-02-19 10:09 -0500]: > > On Saturday, February 19, 2011 08:47:04 am Martin Pitt wrote: > > > While we shouldn't disable it in general, ever (see my other reply), > > > I'd highly welcome disabling dput on a per-package basis. I waste a > > > lot of time cleaning up behind people who just upload one of "my" > > > packages without committing their changes to bzr. > > > > Except, as you know, they aren't yours. > > I meant "packages which I (or desktop team in general) touch a lot". > But anyway, the ownership isn't important here, it's the process: if a > package has a careful and complete history in bzr, and often enough > unreleased stuff in it, it's a nuisance to see that being clobbered by > normal dput uploads which didn't respect the Vcs-Bzr: field.
Perhaps a reasonable middle ground would be some new X-USE-UDD field (pick a better name please) in debian/control and a changet to dput that would either ask an "are you sure y/N" question or require -f to upload. That way it could be set without needed any changes on the launchpad end. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
