Bazaar and Debian

[Russel Winder]

On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 19:22 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:02:51AM +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> > I see that the bzr-rewrite and bzr-svn packages have been dropped by
> > Debian. Does this mean the functionality is elsewhere now, or that those
> > packages need to be put back in?
> I put them up for adoption about a year ago, but nobody was interested in 
> taking over. There have been a few regressions since; in particular Subversion
> has had some behaviour changes in its wc API after they rewrote the underlying
> implementation, and this breaks bzr-svn's testsuite.

I guess the intersection of the set of people interested in Bazaar and
people able to package for Debian became empty. Sad, but that is natural
selection for you. ;-)

> bzr-rewrite has always been a bit of a hack - doing just what is necessary
> for bzr-svn, but nowhere near what you would expect of a proper
> rebase implementation. It has always been in dire need of a rewrite (pun
> intended) which never happened.
> 
> That said, I thought you mentioned you migrated to git? :-)

To some extent yes. Like you I was finding more and more projects I had
to work with shifting to Git, or in a few case Mercurial. I was though
trying to "keep the faith" for projects still using Subversion, i.e. use
Bazaar rather than Git as client. Now this is broken I will have to
switch them to Git and use Bazaar only for those projects still working
with Launchpad for their mainline and bug tracker, which is one. And
that is going to change as part of the re-energizing of that project.

Thanks for all your past efforts on bzr-svn, despite some hiccups early
on it all worked very well for a long time.


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