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

[Dedeco Balaco]

Thank you for the quick and detailed reply.



Em 13/03/2022 21:27, Jelmer Vernooij escreveu:
> 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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