willowgarage/catkin-debs — Issue #2: correspondence of upstream tags and pkg tags
Author: straszheim
Created: 2011-12-27 01:40:54+00:00
State: open
Labels: thinking out loud

seems like default behavior should ensure that upstream is correctly tagged; one can easily push tags to upstream that don't correspond at all to the package versions. Seems like default behavior should be pretty strict (and perhaps assume that upstream is actually under the packager's control), but overridable. See also #1; possibility:

catkin_release.py git://gbp_repo upstream_tagname prefix-name-

which:
- goes to someplace special inside gbp_repo to get the actual upstream url
- checks out that code at upstream_tagname to location tmp/place
- proceeds from there as it currently would, modulo that prefix-name is not 'fuerte', it is 'ros-fuerte-'