Re: Bug#433143: ITP: bzr-rebase -- Rebase plugin for Bazaar
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:38:43 +1000, Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au> said:
> 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.
That was a typo. Of course I meant baz is 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.
Err, OK. Not something I am likely to do, but I can see people
finding 'bzrtools' useful.
>> 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.
I think if there is no bazaar packaged shipped with lenny (apart
from being a dummy package to enable the package rename; then in
lenny + 1 we could use bazaar as the container for bzr, if people so
desire.
manoj
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