Bazaar Explorer and PPA

[Andrew SB]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Max Bowsher <maxb at f2s.com> wrote:
> Tommaso R. Donnarumma wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 08:38 -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>>> I'm sorry that we didn't notice this problem earlier. At this point,
>>> debian repos don't really let us roll-back to 0.8.3 (which is pretty
>>> crummy). I'm not sure how to get out of this mess without forcibly
>>> upgrading everyone to the 2.1 series rather than the 2.0 series.
>>
>> I think this is what the epoch is meant for... If you really want to fix
>> it now (instead that in a month), the package should be "upgraded" to
>> 1:0.8.3 (not that this doesn't stink).
>
> This solution only really works for Debian itself, being the base of the
> packaging hierarchy. If you introduce an epoch in a PPA, those PPA
> packages will be considered newer than EVERY FUTURE PACKAGE in Ubuntu
> itself*. This is of course not wanted.
>
> * Unless you convinced Ubuntu to take your epoch bump too. But they
> wouldn't do that because then they'd have to maintain that epoch bump as
> a delta against Debian, forever.


Well, I'm the maintainer in Debian as well, but I'd rather not have to
append an epoch. Luckily it seems like I won't have to. Apparently
Launchpad allows you to copy a package with a lower version number
into a PPA after you delete the higher version. I swore LP didn't
allow this, but I tested this in my personal PPA.

So I've just successfully restored bzr-explorer 0.9.0 to the ~bzr PPA.
0.10 is still available in both the ~bzr-beta-ppa and
~bzr-explorer-dev PPAs. I'll continue backporting qbzr to the
~bzr-explorer-dev PPA.

Sorry for all the confusion!

-- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio