Call for better Bazaar packaging on Ubuntu

James Westby jw+debian at jameswestby.net
Wed Aug 26 20:53:37 BST 2009


On Wed Aug 26 09:17:11 +0100 2009 Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> James Westby wrote:
> > We can do that with a meta-package. Getting it to show up in
> > gnome-app-install is a little more work though.
> 
> Any chance of this meta-package happening for karmic?

I expect we can still make this change after Feature Freeze.

> >> 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.
> 
> Any updates on this? If there's *one* OS Bazaar ought to be well
> packaged on, it's Ubuntu. :-)

Not yet, it's not the time to discuss these things that aren't
FF-critical.

Thanks,

James



More information about the bazaar mailing list