Call for better Bazaar packaging on Ubuntu

[James Westby]

Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We've recently put together a bzr-windows team to improve Bazaar for
> Windows users. That team has been discussing packaging and installation
> in particular and we have plans for making a better all-in-one installer
> real soon now. The "Bazaar Desktop" installer will include and install
> by default at least the following:
> 
> * Bazaar Explorer
> * QBzr
> * commonly used bzr plugins
> * core bzr
> * nice documentation.
> 
> I think that's great news! The average Windows user cares a lot about
> easy-to-install (batteries included), easy-to-use and well documented.
> 
> If downloads are any guide, we have 35K+ users on Windows and I'd expect
> our Ubuntu users to be well in excess of that. So, I'd like to suggest a
> similar effort to improve our packaging on Ubuntu. In particular, I'd
> like to see an entry in Add/Remove Applications called "Bazaar Desktop"
> will similar contents to the above:

We can do that with a meta-package. Getting it to show up in
gnome-app-install is a little more work though.

> * Bazaar Explorer
> * QBzr (#)
> * bzr-gtk & Olive
> * commonly used bzr plugins
> * core bzr
> * nice documentation.
> 
> We should arguably also clean-up the *existing* Bazaar-related packages
> in Add/Remove. There are 3 - Bazaar, Bazaar Area Notification, Olive
> Bazaar Branch Manager - and all 3 of them have exactly the same
> description. :-(

I think that's a limitation of the design of gnome-app-install.

I'll discuss these things with mvo when he returns from paternity leave.

Thanks,

James