Considering moving all Launchpad branches to 2a - based formats

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On 09/13/2011 05:09 PM, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> On 09/13/2011 04:58 PM, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>> I'm investigating the possibility of doing a mass upgrade of all
>> Launchpad branches into up-to-date formats.  Thereafter, we would
>> either forbid old formats to be uploaded, or automatically upgrade them.
> I'm personally in favor of auto-upgrading all branches. With the small
> caveat of actually looking at the repositories that are in old formats
> and checking if those projects are currently active (which you've
> mentioned you're looking to do).
I think auto-upgrading all branches is a good idea, too.

>
>> Who would this break?
>> ---------------------
>> Bazaar versions prior to 1.16.1, from June 2009.  There is no
>> supported desktop version of Ubuntu with a version that old, however
>> Hardy Server is still supported, and it shipped with 1.3.1.  RHEL 4
>> and 5 may also be affected.
> One small bit. bzr-1.6 was the first one to introduce stacking. So
> branches/repositories created with a bzr older than 1.6 cannot be
> stacked. Thus Hardy Server cannot be creating stacked branches which
> could then get broken by upgrading the stacked-on location.
>
> I don't think we have an SRU for bzr-2.0 into Hardy, but I do believe we
> have packages for it. Our ppa currently has: 2.3.4-0~bazaar1~hardy1.
Both hardy and hardy-updates have 1.3. Debian oldstable (lenny) has 1.5.

Cheers,

Jelmer