update branch at rev 2229

[Richard Wilbur]

On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 01:10 +0200, Gary van der Merwe wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Richard
> Wilbur<richard.wilbur at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am running on a PowerPC (PPC) processor so the fact that the bzr
> > package name doesn't end in '_all' disqualifies it in the eyes of my
> > package manager.  (Since PPC went from supported architecture to
> > community-supported port a while ago, and Launchpad only builds for
> > supported platforms, there is no bzr_1.15-1~bazaar1~hardy1_ppc.deb in
> > the PPA.)
> >
> > I would expect that this is a packaging bug as it shouldn't make any
> > difference for Python code.  I see bzr-gtk and bzrtools but they are
> > grayed out as I expect they depend on bzr.
> >
> > Is there something architecture dependent in bzr these days?
> 
> bzr has some compiled c components in the .deb files, so I guess those
> are architecture dependent. For each of those  compiled c components,
> there are alternative python components.
> 
> I thought that there was a mirror of bzr.dev in a 1.3 compatible
> format, but I can't find it, so what you can do is download the source
> of the latest release, and use that to do a setup.py install.
> 
> Gary

Thanks for filling me in on some of the changes.

Richard