bzrtools packaging

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Thu May 11 00:28:55 BST 2006


On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 06:30 -0400, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> Le mercredi 10 mai 2006 à 19:04 +1000, Robert Collins a écrit : 
> > Hi Jeff, 
> > 	testing the bzrtools package in Dapper, I noticed some quirks..
> > 
> > It does not depend on 'patch' or 'rsync' or 'pybaz'. bzrtools provides
> > extensions to bzr using these external tools. 'pybaz' in particular is
> > important because it provides the 'baz-import' functionality needed to
> > convert baz archives to bzr.
> 
> It Suggests patch and rsync.  AFAIK, bzrtools gracefully degrades if
> these are not present.  I'll add pybaz.

Well, gracefully degrades sure : but will users know to install 'patch'
to make the 'bzr patch' command work ?

I think that the dependency is sufficiently small and inoffensive theres
no reason not to have a recommends or even a depends.

Rob


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