[RFC] tell users to upgrade knit branches

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Do, 2008-03-27 at 09:09 +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 22:41 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > On Mi, 2008-03-26 at 12:05 +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> > > I think its time we deprecated knits.
> > Debian Stable only has a bzr version that uses knits, and for that
> > reason I still have a lot of knits repos around. Would it be possible to wait for lenny to be released?
> 
> I don't think there is a particular reason to wait for $distro to
> release to encourage users to run a repository format that sucks less -
> as long as they have some way to upgrade.

> In this case -- 'backports'. 
Backports are not an option here. These are uni machines with strict
policies. 

I think Aaron's suggestion of allowing some way to get bzr to stop
nagging about old repository formats is a good idea.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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