Unable to install bzr 0.6 from tarball

[Martin Pool]

On 01/11/05, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the report; I hadn't heard of this before.
> >
> > The immediate fix is to install python2.4-dev.  I'm not sure why
> > distutils would want to read that file, or if it can be avoided.

Yes, should have said "want to read that file when not compiling C".


> On the other hand, it would make sense for us to provide an Ubuntu Hoary
> repository for the bzr releases. Especially since Source Mage is
> creating packages for itself.
> Does python setup.py handle this sort of thing? I know it can create
> Win32 installers, I'm guessing it can create .deb files.
> Something along the lines of "python setup.py bdist"

I'll ask Jeff Bailey who was building Ubuntu and Debian debs.

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Martin