Comment 6 for bug 430347

Also had the problem. Andrew's fix of March 2014 worked for me. To help others, this is what I did on Linux:

    cd ~/bazaar/plugins
    bzr branch lp:bzr-fastimport fastimport
    cd fastimport
    patch -p < exportpatch.txt
    python setup.py build_ext -i

I find it a great shame that the original patch has been available since 2011, Andrews fix on that since March 2014, but still in Oct 2015, the official package has not been repaired, and as a result this 6-year-old ticket is still open.

No matter, by the end of this year we will be using git. One reason is that the bazaar project is seemingly dead. Shame I liked bzr.