Bazaar distributions

[John Arbash Meinel]

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James Westby wrote:
> 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.

Well... for *my* desires, I want to make sure that we have an archive of
all releases. If Launchpad PPA's aren't going to do this (which is fair
game, it *is* a free service), then we should probably be doing it
ourselves.

> 
>> 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
> 

John
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