questions from a new bzr user

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

On 5/5/06, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
> >> Been a while since I used jbailey's debs, but I'm surprised they'd
> >> depend on an ubuntu package.  Which one was that?
> >
> >
> > The message I get is:
> > (...)
> >
> > bzrtools depends on bzr (= 0.8~200604291148-0ubuntu2); however:
> >  Version of bzr on system is 0.8~200603240905.
>
> Oh, I see.  In this case the ubuntu designation just means that it was
> prepared by someone associated with Ubuntu, not that it's an
> Ubuntu-specific package.  It is intended to work on Debian Sarge, and later.

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that; it seems to work, though, except for
some minor glitches and messages.

>
> Because bzr has had significant API changes in its devel versions, there
> can be compatibility problems between bzr and bzrtools.  To minimize
> this, we test the latest bzr with the latest bzrtools, and then create a
> bzrtools package that requires that specific bzr version.

Aha, that probably explains the deprecation messages.

R.

>
> Aaron
>


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Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
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Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO)
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