Cease PPA support for bzr-builddeb on hardy (& jaunty)

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 3/31/2011 4:36 PM, Max Bowsher wrote:
> bzr-builddeb now contains tests in its testsuite which depend upon dpkg
> support for source format 3.0.
> 
> This means its testsuite fails on Ubuntu << karmic.
> 
> bzr-builddeb is a developer tool, and highly unlikely to be used by
> anyone on ancient distroseries like hardy and jaunty.
> 
> Therefore I propose to cease ~bzr PPA support for bzr-builddeb in hardy
> and jaunty - please speak now if you actually have a use-case for it -
> thanks :-)
> 
> Max.
> 

Why not just have those tests self.requireFeature(dpkg)

Seems a much more reasonable solution.

John
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