bzr 2.2 has gone gold

[Martin Pool]

On 9 August 2010 12:35, Matthew D. Fuller <fullermd at over-yonder.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 02:44:59PM -0500 I heard the voice of
> John Arbash Meinel, and lo! it spake thus:
>>
>> Thanks to everyone who has helped with this release[1]. This is an
>> announcement for the packaging people for them to get binary
>> packages built so that we can get a final release announcement out.
>
> In updating the FreeBSD port, I stumbled over the apport file
> installs.  They're pointless on the platform, but heaping mortal
> insult on injury they're blatting over in absolute paths, far away
> from anywhere the install should be touching.  I ended up having to
> add an ugly hack patch to the build like:
>
> -    if sys.platform != 'win32':
> +    if 0:
>         # see https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Apport/DeveloperHowTo
>
>
> There must be some slightly smarter way this could be handled...

They're not really pointless; in principle you could quite happily use
apport on BSD.  (Well, in _principle_ you can use it on any OS but
it's a bit unix-oriented at present.)  Everything Linux, .deb or
Ubuntu-specific is internally factored out and optional.  Whether it
actually works there I don't know.

I agree having the paths hardcoded is gross.  I put them there because
they were hardcoded in the version of apport I looked at.

Perhaps we should conditionally install based on whether the apport
directory exists?

-- 
Martin