Bazaar 1.6 release candidate 2

[Russel Winder]

On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 10:22 -0300, Martin Albisetti wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Russel Winder
> <russel.winder at concertant.com> wrote:
> > Is the bzr package supposed to depend on python-paramiko?  I have 5
> > Ubuntu boxes and two of them insist that bzr can only be installed
if
> > python-paramiko is and two of them treat it only as a
recommendation.  I
> > have no idea how this inconsistency can happen but...
> 
> Could it be some of them are Hardy's and some are not?
> 
> Ubuntu (and Debian) changed their policies on installing "recommends"
> by default at some poing.

On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 09:04 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
[ . . . ]
> In the past it has been a strict requirement (because we couldn't do any
> remote push without it). We've since enabled "bzr+ssh" which can talk directly
> to 'ssh' without using paramiko, so it was downgraded to recommended. (We
> still can't talk 'sftp' without it.)
> 
> I would put it pretty high up the priority, and for win32 I would make it a
> strict dependency (ssh.exe is unlikely to be found, and plink.exe doesn't work
> very well, so paramiko can substitute as an ssh connection as well as sftp
> support).
 [ . . . ]
> We can live without it, we always have been able to (you just lose sftp
> support, etc). But you probably *really* want it.

I think the problem was that I created my own deb files at some time in
the past and installed them and then switched to using the standard
release deb files.  In the mean time I had to reinstall some of my
machines from scratch and they have never seen the packages I created
and installed.    Aptitude therefore appears to have some hysteresis in
its dependencies -- which is a bit surprising and likely why I thought
there was a problem.

In the end I loaded up paramiko.

Thanks for your help on this.

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