bzr.dev and plugins

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 07:05 +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> Jelmer,
> 
> On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 20:25 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> [ . . . ]
> > You could create a ~/.bazaar/plugins/rebase.py file without any contents
> > to prevent this from happening.
> 
> Oooo....  now that is an hideous hack ;-)
> 
> (And thanks to Max for proposing the same thing.  I have to admit I
> didn't think of it.)
> 
> This does raise a question though.  I am sure the answer is buried in
> mail archives, but I am going to ask it again anyway.
> 
> Why has bzr-rebase been renamed bzr-rewrite but only for the Bazaar
> branch not for the Ubuntu package.  As far as I can tell bzr-rewrite
> provides no more or less than bzr-rebase, it is just bug fixed in
> comparison.  All the help associated with the package only covers the
> rebase activity.  So from a naïve bzr.dev / plugin branch branch
> perspective there is one plugin that is being exposed via two packages
> leading to name /version conflicts.
It has been renamed to bzr-rewrite in Debian/Ubuntu as well but Lucid
has a version of the package from before the rename. See
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=bzr-rewrite

Cheers,

Jelmer