old version of bzrk in dapper

[Martin Pool]

On 17 Jul 2006, Wouter van Heyst <larstiq at larstiq.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 04:10:20PM -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
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> > We had a performance question in IRC, so I went ahead and downloaded and
> > installed the bzr and bzrk that come with dapper.
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> The bzrk in dapper seems to be 0.2, instead of 0.8.2.
> http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzrk just to have a link to that version [1], but it
> doesn't anymore.
> 
> > It turns out that bzrk is an old one that did not explicitly lock the
> > repository, so it spends a long time locking+unlocking.
> > 
> > Even if we don't get bzr 0.9 into dapper, I think it would be worth
> > back-porting the latest bzrk. (It takes many minutes to open bzr.dev,
> > rather than a few seconds, I killed it after 4 minutes, latest versions
> > opened in 17.6s).
> 
> It should just be a matter of updating the deb packaging, and then
> getting it into dapper. I don't know who can do this, it seems Jeff
> Bailey is no longer in the packaging business.

I think Etienne Goyer is now looking after bzr packaging - maybe he can
update update bzrk from the newer release?

-- 
Martin