Availability of old releases?

[Maritza Mendez]

I've been trying to get the test suite to run as reported in other posts to
this mailing list.

Along the way I have found an obstacle which may be of more general
interest.

Vincent has noted that some tests which run for the bzr sources do not run
for teh bzr PPA.

I want to do a similar test.  But I cannot -- because of version skew
between PPA and tarballs.

Let's look at just the 1.15 series (the latest for which PPA is available as
of right now).

The PPA has 1.15-1~1bazaar1~januty1 which gives

bzr version

Bazaar (bzr) 1.15
  Python interpreter: /usr/bin/python 2.6.2
  Python standard library: /usr/lib/python2.6
  bzrlib: /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib
  Bazaar configuration: /home/martitza/.bazaar
  Bazaar log file: /home/martitza/.bzr.log

but there is no corresponding tarball available at
https://launchpad.net/bzr/+download (surprise!)

Instead what we find at https://launchpad.net/bzr/+download is only the more
recent 1.15.1.tar.gz which gives

./bzr-1.15.1 version

Bazaar (bzr) 1.15.1
  Python interpreter: /usr/bin/python 2.6.2
  Python standard library: /usr/lib/python2.6
  bzrlib: /home/martitza/Desktop/bzr-1.15.1/bzrlib
  Bazaar configuration: /home/martitza/.bazaar
  Bazaar log file: /home/martitza/.bzr.log

Notice the different point-release levels.

So I am should not be surprised to find that the tests which *stall* for the
PPA (1.15) actually *run* (and pass) for the tarball (1.15.1).

So right from the start comparisons of test results are potentailly unsafe.
But let's push a little farther.

Getting deltas between the two versions of bzrlib at least shows that the
actual tests I have reported on (elsewhere) have not changed:

test_http.py
test_read_bundle
test-transport_implementations.py

So we can at least conclude that the difference in selftest behavior
(reported elsewhere) is driven by a real change in bzr and not an artifact
of the tests themselves changing.

Beyond that, I can't say much.

Is there a complete archive of older tarballs?  Or PPA's?  All I'm trying to
do is a fair apples to apples comparison with a common baseline.

Thanks
-M
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