Launchpad itself

map distro package name to branch

Bug #87945 reported by Martin Pool on 2007-02-26

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #91579: associate branch with source package. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Launchpad itself	Triaged	Medium	Jonathan Lange

Bug Description

For the benefit of distro developers, we would like to an indirection from source package name to the main upstream branch (typicall imported). This could be used by the lp: protocol,

bzr log lp:libgtk1.2

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Celso Providelo (cprov) wrote on 2007-02-26:

Martin,

We might find useful to store this relation as '$DISTRIBUTION/$NAME/$VERSION' or something similar.
This way we are sure that it will cope appropriately with "derivation" in Soyuz.

What do you think ?

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote on 2007-02-27:

btw the lp: url just rewrites the url into the code.launchpad.net namespace.

So like this?

http://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gtk+1.2/1.2.10-18

That would be ok however I think we'd also want a url for whatever is the current version in the distro, and in a particular version. Something like

/ubuntu/gtk+1.2/
/dapper/gtk+1.2/

/ubuntu/dapper/gtk+1.2

I don't know if distro releases are pillar names?

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Celso Providelo (cprov) wrote on 2007-02-27:

No, distroreleases are not pillar names.

But the "current source package release" depends on a distrorelease, as you pointed:

/ubuntu/dapper/gtk+1.2

Looks like you need to store:

* source name in LP: "gtk+1.2"
* multiple targets in LP: "ubuntu/dapper"/"debian/sid"/"guadalinux/foo"

I don't know about version, if they would be different across targets.

Tim Penhey (thumper) on 2007-03-04

Changed in launchpad-bazaar:
assignee:	nobody → thumper
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2007-11-16:

It would be annoying to have to type lp:ubuntu/hardy/gtk+1.2 all the time, but if /ubuntu/gtk+1.2/+branches redirected to /ubuntu/CURRENT/gtk+1.2/+branches where CURRENT is the current development distroseries so that we could just do lp:ubuntu/gtk+1.2, then that would work.