bzr ppa updates

Robert Collins robert.collins at canonical.com
Mon Jul 5 06:09:28 BST 2010


On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
> On 3 July 2010 04:47, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
>> Nevertheless we could produce bzr-2.0 bzr-2.1 bzr-2.2 packages that
>> all provide and conflict with bzr; then users could choose.
>
> I wasn't talking about producing separate bzr-2.1 packages (though
> that might be interesting), but rather having separate ppas.  The
> ~bzr/2.0 ppa would contain bzr=2.0.x plus plugins that work with it.
>
> I think as a once-per-six months thing, before we overwrite the 2.1
> packages currently in stable with 2.2 packages, we might as well copy
> them to a new ~bzr/2.1 ppa.

yes - I was saying that its harder for people to know when to switch
to a new PPA url than to see a new package in synaptic.

-Rob



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