Bug#804267: mercurial-crecord: remove mercurial-crecord from the archive

[Andrej Shadura <andrew.shadura@collabora.co.uk>]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2015 19:42:18 +0000 Javi Merino <vicho@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 08:21:33PM +0100, Andrew Shadura wrote:
> > On 6 November 2015 at 20:10, Javi Merino <vicho@debian.org> wrote:
> > > Package: mercurial-crecord
> > > Version: 0.20140626-1
> > > Severity: normal
> > >
> > > According to [0], mercurial-crecord is included in mercurial 3.6.  You
> > > can enable it by adding to your .hgrc:
<...>
> > > To me, it looks like we don't need mercurial-crecord in sid/stretch
> > > any more, shall we remove it from the archive?

> > Yes, there's experimental implementation of crecord in Mercurial, yet
> > I'm not sure it's mature enough — it's experimental, after all. When
> > it stops being experimental we may stop shipping it.

> Ok, let's wait until mercurial 3.7 (February 2016) and see if it's no
> longer experimental then.

I have uploaded a version of mercurial-crecord that removes the actual
code of the extension, but instead shows a NEWS item explaining hg ci -i
is the way to go now. I have also switched it to oldlibs.

I suggest we ship it in bullseye for the users’ convenience, and remove
it afterwards.

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Cheers,
  Andrej