bzr 1.3 in ppa; plugins still need updates

[Russel Winder]

Jelmer,

On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 15:44 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:

> The link is not as strict as that. As far as I know bzrtools should work
> fine with older and newer versions of bzr. bzr-svn usually works fine
> with one or two versions of bzr. 

Given the hassles, might it be better to just stick to a version lock
step so as to avoid them?

> The Debian dependencies on bzrtools and bzr-svn are very strict (tied
> to a particular bzr release) since bzrtools and bzr are always released
> in the same week anyway and to avoid potential issues with bzr breaking
> the API for bzr-svn.

If http://ppa.launchpad.net/bzr/ubuntu is to be the official location of
deb files for the current released Bazaar, it really needs to be that
there is consistency and completness, and installability -- which is
currently not the case.  If PPA isn't up to the job that Bazaar bleeding
edge users need in order to be able to install a consistent version of
Bazaar then either it needs to be abandoned in favour of a repository
that can do the job, or it needs changing so that it can do the job.

The current situation does seem to be a blocking barrier to bleeding
edge use of Bazaar.

-- 
Russel.
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