bzr ppa updates

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 18:18 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 30 June 2010 18:16, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
> > On 30 June 2010 17:41, Gary van der Merwe <garyvdm at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
> >>> I've just sent bzr 2.1.2 for Dapper into the main bzr ppa
> >>> <https://launchpad.net/~bzr/+archive/>.  This PPA is the single best
> >>> choice for people installing on Ubuntu who want to go to a major
> >>> version beyond what was in the OS release.  I'm going to do the later
> >>> releases now.
> >
> > There's one snag in this, which is only obvious at attempted-install
> > time (and that's a separate bug), but it looks like bzr 2.2 has a hard
> > dependency on python-configobj which is not packaged for dapper....
> 
> ... ok actually this is more complicated; we do have our own copy in
> trunk and 2.1, but in the packaging branch perhaps bzr has been
> patched to use the system version.  I'll dig in to the history a bit
> more later.
In the Debian packages we've patched bzr to not include configobj and
rely on the system provided python-configobj. See
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=555336
for details.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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