Bug#702697: RFP: git-remote-bzr -- bidirectional bridge between Git and Bazaar

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Paul Wise wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 21:03 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:

>> I wanted a package now, so I created one, Debian tarball is
>> attached. It's probably not perfect, but it works for me.  Anyone who
>> volunteers for maintaining git-remote-bzr could use it as a starting
>> point.
>
> I would be happy to sponsor you if you want to maintain it. If not I
> guess I will have to maintain it since I really need these packages.

Thanks.  I also wouldn't mind co-maintaining since bugs may sometimes
point to issues in git's remote helper code.

>> It might be better to make git-bzr a transitional package and create a
>> git-remote-bzr package which does not need an epoch.
>
> Jonathan, do you have any comments on how the transition should be done?

What Sven said makes sense to me: a single source package with a
transitional git-bzr package that depends on the main git-remote-bzr
package.  Then only the git-bzr package would need an epoch.  git-bzr
was never part of a stable release so it would just be needed for a
little while for people using sid, testing, or stable-backports.  It's
not necessarily needed in the jessie release.

I can add a Recommends to the git-all package to make the package more
discoverable if you like.

Thanks,
Jonathan