bzr-gtk vs. QBzr

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Lukáš Lalinský wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Joseph Wakeling
> <joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net> wrote:
>> I do note one problem with qbzr -- the developers have not kept the PPA
>> up to date (there is no Jaunty version and the PPA versions for Hardy
>> and Intrepid are several releases behind the latest source release).
> 
> Sorry about that, I'm the one that normally builds the packages and I
> tend to forget. :) 0.9.8 is uploaded now for hardy, intrepid and
> jaunty. I'll try harder to make sure every new releases is uploaded as
> soon as possible.
> 
>> The qbzr version in the official Jaunty repositories is even further
>> behind the PPA ... :-(
> 
> We have no control over the official Ubuntu packages.
> 
>> So, from my point of view one of the most important things the qbzr
>> developers can do is to put more effort into having up-to-date PPA and
>> distro packages.  I don't really understand why qbzr is not uploaded to
>> the main bzr PPA
> 
> This would require somebody from the ~bzr LP team to upload them,
> which I would welcome, because it would mean less work for me, but I
> don't think we can find a volunteer for that.
> 
> Lukas
> 
> 
I went ahead and copied the ~qbzr-dev packages over to ~bzr. I agree
that it is good to have them there.

At the moment, I'm not really interested in picking up yet another
packaging duty, but *copying* packages from one ppa to another is
trivially easy.

Though the numbering on the packages seems a bit different, and I'm not
really sure why.
For example:

bzr - 1.12-1~bazaar1~hardy1

versus

qbzr - 0.9.8-0ubuntu1~qbzr1~hardy1

Wouldn't that be 0.9.8-0~ubuntu1~... ? Not that I understand debian
packaging revision strings very well.

Anyway, it seems reasonable to have a ~qbzr-dev/+archive (you could
consider it the 'beta' like ~bzr-beta-ppa), and then copy them across
when appropriate.

John
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