Re: advice requested: requesting an unblock request for bup

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 19:46 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: 
> bup in testing is 0.14a. Version 0.17 introduced some changes to the checksum
> algorithm. Anyone with a bup repository created pre 0.17 will have their
> backup repository jump in size when they eventually move to 0.17 (or later).

How big is that jump?  If we unblock the new version, are we going to
get lots of 0.14a users complaining about it? :)

> b) repackage 0.17 with the 'bup web' stuff excised, removing the tornado
>    dependency (and web feature)
[...]
>  88 files changed, 9452 insertions(+), 989 deletions(-)

I assume this is basically the removal of cmd/web-cmd.py and
lib/tornado/ ?

Regards,

Adam