Considering moving all Launchpad branches to 2a - based formats

[Aaron Bentley]

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On 11-09-13 11:09 AM, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> 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.

Sure.  I mean that stock Hardy doesn't support 2a format, so if we
upgrade all Launchpad branches to 2a (or the subtree version), Hardy
will no longer be able to use Launchpad branches.

> 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.

Yes, I meant to mention that, but it must have gotten lost in editing.

Aaron
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