bzr-svn still broken in 2.0rc2
Jelmer Vernooij
jelmer at samba.org
Wed Sep 23 09:47:13 BST 2009
Hi John,
John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>
> ...
>
> >> Jelmer, is it possible to have regular announces with comments
> about compatibility between all 3
> >> products: bzr, bzr-svn, subvertpy?
> > bzr-svn should work with all non-ancient versions of subvertpy. For
> > bzr-svn / bzr compatibility see the bzr-svn wiki page
> (http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrForeignBranches/Subversion).
>
> > I've done announcements for most major bzr-svn releases. In some
> cases there's
> > just a minor API change that we have to cope with and in those
> situations it
> > doesn't really seem worthwhile to do a full release announcement. Is
> there
> > any benefit to you in this over subscribing to the wiki page?
>
> Well, as the primary windows packager, I rarely know what version of
> bzr-svn to use. And I'm subscribed to the whole bzr wiki.
The wiki page lists the versions of bzr-svn and what versions of bzr
they are compatible with. What more info can I provide?
> And given that we *do* need to package a new bzr-svn if there is a
> "minor API change that we have to cope with", it would be good to know
> about.
>
> One possibility is if you just want to track the
> 'bzr-windows-installers' project, and when you release a new bzr-svn,
> just update the appropriate field in 'tools/win32/buildout.cfg'
Ian and I discussed this a bit more on IRC. I'll update the versions in
buildout.cfg when I do new releases.
> I don't want it to be a burden to you, but as it stands, you also don't
> update the Launchpad bzr-svn page, so I can't even just go there and see
> what the latest version is. Is there a better page that you do keep up
> to date? Perhaps something on the debian pages?
I've never updated the bzr-svn page on Launchpad manually, Launchpad
(should) automatically detect new releases on the main download site
(http://samba.org/~jelmer/bzr/).
Cheers,
Jelmer
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