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

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 17-Jul-07, 12:56 (CDT), Adeodato Sim?? <dato@net.com.org.es> wrote: 
> * Manoj Srivastava [Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:11:45 -0500]:
> 
> > >  * 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 would
> >  be most annoyed if baz would have been replaced by bzr on my systems if
> >  the sysadmin dude did not notice the change.
> 
> Well, the issue at hand is that the upstream authors of Bazaar 1.x have
> renamed it to "baz", and given away their name to some other project
> (bzr). Sooner or latter the packages will have to reflect *that*.

Fine. Figure out a way to transition that doesn't involve automatically
replacing baz with bzr.

Or, just include in the bazaar package long description "This is baz,
not bzr. You probably want the bzr package, instead."

Or, just have 'bazaar' depend on *both* baz and bzr. 

Steve

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