PPA status update

[Max Bowsher]

On 08/02/11 10:08, Max Bowsher wrote:
> On 08/02/11 09:16, Gary van der Merwe wrote:
>> On 08/02/2011 03:30, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>> On 05/02/11 13:25, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>>> bzr/ppa now carries bzr 2.2.4
>>>>
>>>> bzr/beta now carries bzr 2.3.0 plus a set of plugins that work, but in
>>>> some cases are unreleased snapshots
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So, we're all good to push out 2.3.0 to the main PPA whenever (now,
>>>> even), though some plugin upstream releases would make the version
>>>> numbers look nicer :-)
>>>>
>>>> Plugins in need of release:
>>>>
>>>> bzr-fastimport (and python-fastimport)
>>>> bzr-gtk
>>>> bzr-loom
>>>> bzr-rewrite
>>>> bzr-svn
>>
>>> I've pushed 2.3.0 from bzr/beta into bzr/proposed, to widen the
>>> potential testing audience. Barring surprises, would anyone disagree
>>> with pushing 2.3.0 out to the main PPA in 24 hours?
>>
>>> Max.
>>
>>
>>
>> I've run into https://bugs.launchpad.net/qbzr/+bug/715067 which happens
>> when running bzr from the debian package, and non-debian patched qbzr.
>>
>> I don't think this should delay the push from beta to main ppa. Just
>> mentioning it in case anyone else runs into it.
> 
> Yet, it's kind of an API regression in Debian-patched bzrlib, and easily
> fixed. I'm tempted to just fix it.

Actually, no, it's not easy. I failed to appreciate the difficulties of
importing a module called 'configobj' from within a module called
'foo.bar.baz.configobj' :-)

OK, so I'll go ahead with pushing to the main PPA, and if this issue
causes additional grief, the simplest fix would be to drop the removal
of the embedded deps from the PPA packages.

Max.

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