Re: Bug#433143: ITP: bzr-rebase -- Rebase plugin for Bazaar

[Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>]

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:

>  bzr is an inplementation of Arch, and there are people who have not
>  bought the 'Bazaar VCS Project' koolaid, and still prefer Arch to
>  the new VCS.

'bzr' is not an implementation of Arch. At best, it is strongly
inspired by work the developers did on 'baz', which *was* an
implementation of Arch.

With the 'bzrtools' package installed, it's (sometimes) possible to do
a one-way import of existing 'baz' branches or repositories. That's
useful for those who know they're transitioning to an entirely new
VCS, and want to do so.

> Robert Collins wrote:
> >  * Create a 'bazaar' package which is a metapackage depending on bzr,
> > recommending key plugins, and suggesting others.
>
>         This would be a bug.  While I understand you prefer the bzr VCS
>  over Arch, I see no justification for imposing your likes and dislikes
>  over users happily using baz as their version control system.

I agree; the older 'baz' VCS is what currently gets installed with the
'bazaar' package, and the 'bzr' VCS is not a compatible replacement.

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