Bazaar distributions

[James Westby]

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 07:07 +0000, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:08 +0000, James Westby wrote:
> I think focusing on the other aspects 
> > bzr 1.1 has gone as 1.2 has been uploaded. However there has not
> > been a bzr 1.2 compatible release of bzr-svn available, so we couldn't
> > upload that. Hopefully that will be rectified soon.
> 
> Is this the right way of managing these artefacts?
> 
> I would argue that unless all the artefacts on the repository are always
> updated in lock step, then history should be preserved so that there is
> always a consistent package state possible.  Removing the 1.1 artefacts
> means this is not possible.   If PPA cannot allow multiple versions of a
> package then perhaps this is a bug to be fixed?
> 

Hi,

We made a mistake, it is not our intent to have the whole suite
uninstallable for so long.

I realise that you are just trying to get a working system, and also 
trying to help others by making sure that this problem never happens
again, and we appreciate that, but we are well aware of the problem.

I don't think it is a bug in PPAs that they don't keep old versions.
As I understand it the Packages file can't list two packages with
different versions. I may be wrong about this, in which case keeping
older versions could be feasible. However there have to be disk space
considerations.

> Is there a place I can find the 1.1 artefacts so I can download them to
> a private package repository?
> 

As far as I know they are not available.

You can still build from source, but I know that is not ideal.

snapshot.debian.net will have them build for Debian unstable, I
don't know if they are installable on your system.

Thanks,

James