Re: Discussion/permission to update bzr

[Stephen John Smoogen <smooge gmail com>]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a badger gmail com> wrote:
> I have a bit of a quandry with the bzr package in EPEL  I want to upgrade it
> due to compatibility problems but the upgrade brings in abackwards
> compatibility problems.  Let me explain::
>
> bzr is a distributed version control system.  The main hosts of bzr
> repositories that we care about are launchpad and fedorahosted.org.  People
> can, of course run their own repositories.

> So what's this mean for us?  It means that I'd like to update EPEL's bzr to
> the 2.1 branch.  This breaks API compatibility but it has the following
> benefits:
>
> * It brings us over-the-wire compatibility with bzr-2.x
> * It brings us repository format compatibility with current bzr-2.x users so
>  they can share their repositories with users of the EPEL packages
> * It brings us a client that can talk to launchpad, probably the most
>  important source of bzr repositories if you're an open source developer.
>
> So what do other people think here?  Is the over-the-wire and
> repository-format compatibility issues sufficient to override the API
> compatibility issues in this case?  As the maintainer, I definitely believe
> so but I await your input.

I am +1 to updating to newer version with a cut and release day of XYZ
to be announced and documented. My reasons are:

1) Update to one that works with main bzr sites (launchpad).
2) Allows for fedorahosted to be updated to something that F13 can use.




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