Comment 7 for bug 553699

On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:38:35 -0000, Ian Clatworthy <email address hidden> wrote:
> On 07/04/10 00:10, James Westby wrote:
> > On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:57:39 -0000, Ian Clatworthy<email address hidden> wrote:
> >> Thanks for the patch. Jelmer fixed this in rev 273 back in February but
> >> Lucid has rev 261.
> >>
> >> Jelmer, Any chance of getting a later bzr-fastimport into Lucid?
> >
> > There are new features which mean it would require a freeze exception.
> >
> > We can easily get just this change in, or you could pull in other
> > bugfixes as well if you know of some that should be there.
>
> There are quite a number of bug fixes between rev 261 and rev 275, the
> 0.9 release. These include:
>
> * rev 262: a packaging fix for the exporters
> * rev 270 - fix broken Monotone support
>
> John Arbash Meinel also greatly reduced the memory requirements in rev
> 264 and improved bzrlib usage in rev 267. These have made fastimport
> more reliable.
>
> Given John's fixes in particular, my preference is for 0.9 to be
> included in Lucid. What's required to get a freeze exception?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess#FeatureFreeze%20Exceptions

Thanks,

James