Bazaar distributions
James Westby
jw+debian at jameswestby.net
Thu Mar 13 09:49:02 GMT 2008
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
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