When shall we remove hardy packages from the main ~bzr ppa?

[Max Bowsher]

On 19/07/12 11:39, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> new on this list ;-) Jelmer pointed me to this mail after my request
> to ~bzr yesterday.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Max Bowsher wrote:
> 
>> When shall we remove hardy packages from the main ~bzr ppa?
> 
> Please don’t.

Hmm, too late, I just did, minutes before noticing this email. Sorry.
The packages remain available via the ~bzr 'obsolete' PPA for people who
really must have them, but that location more accurately conveys the
lack of intention to update them.

> In fact, I’d really like to have a newer bzr
> for hardy (including bzr-svn, but really the whole stack
> because otherwise some other packages become uninstallable)
> so my wheezy laptop and hardy desktop stay somewhat in sync.
> But I just upgraded to 2.3.4 from 2.1-something, and it fixed
> some of my problems, so please keep them at least, as they WFM.

Bazaar >> 2.3.x requires a newer Python version than available for
hardy. This is the most critical factor which brought about a cessation
of updates in the PPA.

Also, hardy reached desktop end of life over a year ago, and reaches
complete end of life in less than a year.

There is really no reason for a desktop to still be running hardy at
this point - a painful production server, maybe, but not a desktop.

> I started to work with bzr on FusionForge so you have Roland
> Mas to thank for me being here, but grew to somewhat like it,
> and it’s recently¹ become the new² client of choice for working
> with repositories that are svn server-side.
> 
> ① http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/237-subversion-1.7.5-insane-upgrade-requirement-wasting-days-and-days-of-effort.html

Whoa. That's a superbly excessive rant that gets critical terminology
like 'repository' vs. 'working copy' wrong, hurls around words like
'losing data' for greater impact without it really being the case, and
has comments disabled to the author can rant without accepting
corrections - or even *help*.

But it's not about Bazaar, so I won't go into it further in this forum.

Max.


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