Advantages
Cherry-picking changes from Debian
Debian had made a change to emacspeak in the 28.0-2 upload, but Ubuntu only had 26.0-3. I wanted just the changes to fix that bug. I had to "apt-get source emacspeak", then go to the PTS and grab the source of Debian's (is there an easier way to do that). I then had to identify the changes in the Debian package, and create a diff against the Ubuntu version.
If both were available in bzr then I could have done "bzr branch lp:ubuntu/intrepid/emacspeak" and then "bzr merge -c 1 lp:debian/unstable/emacspeak", then "bzr reverted" the bits that I didn't want.
DistributedDevelopment/Advantages (last edited 2008-09-13 13:36:04 by 92-236-87-214)