re 0.15rc3/win32: bug report, suggestion and question

[Andrew Voznytsa]

Hi all,

I tried to use 0.15 with lightweight checkout (0.14) from shared
repository (0.14) and I got this:

bzr: ERROR: paramiko.SFTPError: Garbage packet received

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyc", line 650, in run_bzr_catch_errors
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyc", line 612, in run_bzr
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyc", line 304, in run_argv_aliases
  File "bzrlib\builtins.pyc", line 948, in run
  File "bzrlib\branch.pyc", line 129, in open
  File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyc", line 544, in open
  File "bzrlib\lazy_import.pyc", line 106, in __call__
  File "bzrlib\transport\__init__.pyc", line 1039, in get_transport
  File "bzrlib\transport\__init__.pyc", line 1097, in
_try_transport_factories
  File "bzrlib\transport\__init__.pyc", line 109, in _loader
  File "bzrlib\transport\sftp.pyc", line 223, in __init__
A c File "bzrlib\transport\sftp.pyc", line 834, in _sftp_connect
ce s File "bzrlib\transport\sftp.pyc", line 1198, in _sftp_connect
s  d File "bzrlib\transport\sftp.pyc", line 1204, in _sftp_connect_uncached
en i File "bzrlib\transport\ssh.pyc", line 343, in connect_sftp
ed
  File "paramiko\sftp_client.pyc", line 87, in __init__
  File "paramiko\sftp.pyc", line 108, in _send_version
  File "paramiko\sftp.pyc", line 183, in _read_packet
SFTPError: Garbage packet received

bzr 0.15.0candidate3 on python 2.5.0.final.0 (win32)
arguments: ['bzr', 'co', 'sftp://username@host/repository/branch']

Server is http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net, host WinXP Pro SP2,
repository - shared, no trees, 0.14 format. Working tree is lightweight
checkout (0.14 too).

Note: ssh keys were regenerated after last checkout 0.14, before
upgrading to 0.15rc3.

After that I used bzr 0.14. It said that keys mismatched and I should
edit here and there to make it working. I did it and bzr 0.14 worked
just fine. So I tried 0.15 again - it failed. Seems that SSH is a problem.

OK, I decided to bzr 0.14 unbind/bind to UNC patch in hope to forget
about SSH - no luck. 0.14 (and 0.15) still ask for SSH password. I
looked in <branch>\.bzr\branch\location and there is still sftp URL so
it just silently exited from bind call, without any notifications that
bind failed or is not possible at all.

Next, suggestion: why not to just allow rebind without connecting to
server? What if server is not (and won't) available anymore and mobile
user will have to use mirror? (checkout from server A to notebook;
server A crash; rebind to server B and use it. I agree that mobile user
won't use lightweight checkout, but anyway it would be useful)

And last, question: when do you expect to have 1.0? (I know - it is hard
to tell but could you try please?)

-- 
Best regards,
Andrew Voznytsa