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Daily builds rock, but bzr imports suck

Ubuntu‘s development platform Launchpad recently gained the ability to create daily builds. BzrBuilder is used for creating source tarballs and PPAs are used for building the source tarballs. BzrBuilder uses a recipe that declares how to build a source from different bzr branches. In most cases you have a bzr import from the upstream version control system. Then you nest a bzr branch that contains the packaging information. This works great for

but the bzr import for these projects fail:

  • Audacious: Import fails with infinite recursion (LP: #519709)
  • Eclipse: Launchpad disallows valid CVS module of ‘.’ from being imported (LP: #594294)
  • VLC: Code Imports does not support submodules (LP: #402814)
  • XMMS2: Code Imports does not support submodules (LP: #402814)