Bzr plugins *must* die!

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Martin Pool wrote:

> Some things we could do:
> 
> - easiest for us, just advise people in this situation to use the
> version from the ppa

But thats the one that breaks the plugins I depend on.

> - add a configuration option to say "stop warning about old formats"

Do you mean in $(HOME).bazaar/bazaar.conf or in
<working dir>/.bzr/branch/branch.conf? The second might be preferable.

> - get a package for dapper into a more official place than our own
> ppa, such as dapper-updates -- this requires making a case for a large
> new code drop into what's supposed to be a very stable distro

This would actually be very nice. The big argument for this solution
is that Bzr is a tool that needs to work across Ubuntu releases
because developers need to work across releases.

> I think the other thing is to address the desynchronization between
> bzrtools and bzr.

Anything that could address that would be appreciated.

Erik
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