Proposed dependency change for bzr/ppa and bzr-beta-ppa/ppa

[Max Bowsher]

Currently, bzr/ppa has a build-time dependency configured against
dulwich/ppa and subvertpy/ppa.

bzr-beta-ppa/ppa has a build-time dependency configured against
subvertpy/ppa.


I propose to delete those dependency links, as they apply only at
build-time - thus, they facilitate building a package in those PPAs,
which could then be uninstallable unless the end-user also has the
dependency PPAs in their sources list.


Instead, we can either copy packages from those PPAs, or make explicit
uploads to the ~bzr PPA. As both dulwich/ppa and subvertpy/ppa seem to
only target the most recent Ubuntu release, they are not currently
usable as the sole source of packages for providing a newer dependency
of bzr-git/bzr-svn across all supported Ubuntu releases, as the ~bzr PPA
intends to.


Jelmer: As owner of ~dulwich and ~subvertpy, how do you define the
mission statement of those PPAs? Would it make sense for them to
maintain an up to date version of those projects across all supported
Ubuntu releases, or should dulwich and subvertpy be built directly in
~bzr PPAs in so far as needed to provide up-to-date bzr-svn and bzr-git
packages?


Max.

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