evolution-data-server on launchpad.net

[David Allouche]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:09:18 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> I'm not sure who to mail about this -- as your one of the registry
> administrators and manage the source import, you'll have to do. :)

I am indeed the right person to ask about vcs-import related things.

> Basically https://launchpad.net/evolution-data-server is out of date
> now.  The source import says that its tracking from CVS, but GNOME
> migrated to SVN over the new year.  The new source repository is at:
> 
> http://svn.gnome.org/svn/evolution-data-server/trunk/

Thank you. I set up a new import from the svn.

Unfortunately evolution-data-server uses svn:externals and Launchpad imports currently have a problem with them.

The relevant Launchpad bugs:

vcs-imports fail in the presence of svn:externals
https://launchpad.net/launchpad-bazaar/+bug/81684

vcs import should report cvs config and svn externals information
https://launchpad.net/launchpad-bazaar/+bug/68175

> Can you update the data and make it re-sync?  I really need to do a few
> bzr branches of e-d-s for work (I've a 2meg patchset to merge!) and
> branching them from launchpad would be better than a local branch (my
> old bzr-svn crashes when I try and do a bzr co the svn repository).

You should know a few things:

 * the new import from svn will be "unrelated" to the existing import from cvs
 * launchpad imports are "unrelated" to imports done with bzr-svn

This "unrelated" means that although they might have identical contents, bzr will see them as completely different branches. They will have different revision-ids and different file-ids. Merging with bzr between unrelated branches does not work.

Jelmer has put a lot of work into bzr-svn recently, so maybe you would like to use it instead of Launchpad imports, especially if you have commit access to the evolution-data-server svn repository. However imports done with newer bzr-svn are also "unrelated" to imports done with old versions of bzr-svn.

Regards.
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                                                            -- ddaa
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