BZR Post-release Snapshot: Keep BZR Repository Data in Tarball?

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 18:36 -0800, Peter Gordon wrote:
> Hello, all.
> 
> Upstream for scribes has pushed some major bug fixes into their
> Bazaar-NG repository, which I'd like to take a snapshot of and package
> as an update in Fedora Extras (foremostly because it fixes the
> processor-intensive zombie bug, but also includes updated translations).
> 
> My question is: When I create a tarball of the snapshot from a `bzr
> get`, should I keep the .bzr files and directory in it (which contains
> the repository checkout information)?

Given that it's a post-release snapshot, couldn't you create a patch
file containing the differences between the snapshot and the latest
release and just use the patch?

Paul.