Unable to install bzr 0.6 from tarball

[Martin Pool]

On 01/11/05, Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 16:57 -0500, Martin Pool 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.
>
> Thanks. I'll try it later tonight. If you don't hear back from me, you
> can assume it worked.
>
> And thanks for considering setting up a Hoary apt repo with stable
> releases, since it doesn't look like I'll be updating all my machines
> for at least a few more weeks.

I spoke briefly to mdz (the distro lead) and he suggests putting bzr
new releases into dapper (the current distro development version),
allowing them to be backported automatically, and getting people to
install on hoary and breezy through ubuntu-backports.

--
Martin