I want to use bzr-explorer in Debian 11. How to install it?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 08:20:31PM -0300, Dedeco Balaco wrote:
> I want to use bzr-explorer in Debian 11. How to install it?
The short answer is unfortunately that that isn't possible.

> I opened a tread in linuxquestion.org about it, but in the end, users
> there told me that:
> 
> 1. Apparently Bazaar was replaced by Breezy
> <https://www.breezy-vcs.org/>, but nobody has bothered to update the GUIs.

QBzr has been ported to Breezy, and can found at
https://launchpad.net/qbrz and in Debian.

The other GUIs have indeed not been ported.

> 2. bzr-explorer 1.3.0-2 is available for Debian 10. It is not available
> in Debian 11.
> 
> I have bazaar installed here (the command is 'bzr', actually). I would
> like to have bzr-explorer. I would like to understand the existence of
> breezy X bazaar.

/usr/share/doc/bzr/NEWS.Debian.gz on your system should have details, but I'll also
include it here:

bzr (2.7.0+bzr6622+brz) unstable; urgency=medium

  Bazaar has been replaced in Debian with Breezy. Breezy is a friendly fork
  of Bazaar that is actively maintained and has been ported from Python 2 to
  Python 3.

  The command-line interface for Breezy is backwards-compatible with Bazaars, and
  it provides the ``bzr'' command for convenience. Breezy will also read
  its configuration from ~/.bazaar, if present.

  Third-party plugins that worked with Bazaar will almost certainly not work
  with Breezy but can be ported with some effort.

 -- Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at debian.org>  Sun, 24 Feb 2019 02:27:11 +0000

> It does not take much time to read the thread i mentioned. I will not
> copy more details from there. But reading it all can be useful, anyway:
> 
> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=6337971#post6337971
> 
> Can you help me?

Unfortunately bzr-explorer hasn't been ported to Breezy. Until
somebody does so, you won't be able to use it with Breezy.

Bazaar is no longer packaged for modern versions of Debian (the "bzr"
package is merely a shim that installs Breezy), since it only supports
Python 2 which is no longer suppored on Debian.

The Breezy developers have no plans to port bzr-explorer to Breezy.
Though if somebody were interested in porting it, we could probably
provide guidance on the API, etc.

The only ways to still run bzr-explorer, would be to either stick
with an older version of Debian or to install older packages
(from an older Debian) of Python, Bazaar, qt, pyqt, qbzr and bzr-explorer
on Debian 11 - which may or may not work.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at jelmer.uk>
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