Please backport mercurial 0.9

[Louai Al-Khanji]

Dapper currently includes 0.7, which is already quite old. 0.9 adds quite a few new features, and is almost perfectly backwards compatible with 0.7.

Please consider backporting the newer package to dapper.

[John Dong (jdong)]

certainly will do. The new mercurial is a great improvement over 0.7!

[John Dong (jdong)]

 -> Considering debhelper (>= 5.0.37.2)
      Tried versions: 5.0.7ubuntu13
   -> Does not satisfy version, not trying

Unfortunately, package requires newer debhelper than Dapper can provide.

Mercurial Ubuntu packagers -- is the explicit debhelper version requirement necessary or can it be removed to facilitate backporting?

[John Dong (jdong)]

Rejected from dapper-backports until we receive word from mercurial packagers.

[Omnifarious (omnifarious)]

And now, of course, Mercurial is up to 0.9.1 as of July 24th.

[Kai Kasurinen (kai-kasurinen)]

Reject Ubuntu task.

[^rooker (rooker)]

Since this request is now over 1 1/2 year old: are there any news regarding this decision?
(I didn't really understand why this request is declared "illegal")

[^rooker (rooker)]

Sorry, but I forgot to mention, that mercurial v0.7 that currently comes with dapper does not work with Dapper's current Python version (v2.4) - so backporting a more recent version would actually make mercurial usable at all.

I'm refering to bug #53131:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mercurial/+bug/53131

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Answer the question in comment 2 above is what's needed.

[^rooker (rooker)]

ok. That was also my assumption. Thanks for clearing it up.
Still it feels strange that there hasn't been *any* reply from the mercurial developers since July 2006 - That's almost 2 years...

[tonfa (bboissin)]

I don't have any problem running 0.7 with python2.5, or python2.4 from Hardy. I don't believe the problem is with mercurial, it might be a packaging problem or something else.

(anyway 0.7 is really really old for something like mercurial which was started in 2005, it is only 6 months after the initial release!)

[Omnifarious (omnifarious)]

Well, I would answer, but I know nothing of the Debian package management system or what debhelper is even for.