Comment 8 for bug 672389

On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 14:36 +0000, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Jelmer Vernooij <email address hidden>:
> > I have a PPA with some bzr plugins packaged here:
> >
> > https://code.launchpad.net/~jelmer/+archive/bzr-dailies
> >
> > I've just requested new builds for python-fastimport and bzr-fastimport
> > that should hopefully kick off in the next hour. There are just packages
> > for Maverick at the moment, if you're running something else please let
> > me know and I'll add builds for that series as well.
>
> I am running Maverick, and I see the updated package. Sadly, the popup
> with installation instructions is broken; would you please fix that or
> remind me of the magic incantation, please?
Do you mean the "Technical details about this PPA" box? This seems to be
working for me at moment, what breaks for you?

The contents of the box are:

This PPA can be added to your system manually by copying the lines below
and adding them to your system's software sources.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jelmer/bzr-dailies/ubuntu maverick main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/jelmer/bzr-dailies/ubuntu maverick main

Signing key: 1024R/EB27448B
Fingerprint: CA7C60A52494B0FD5CD5292102949186EB27448B

> > > I tripped over this bug while trying to extend reposurgeon support to
> > > bzr. I'd like to (a) verify this fix, and (b) finish the bzr suppport.
> > Ah, nice!
> It's fun project. I think it's the first *native* import-streams
> application - that is, the first cross-VCS tool that relies
> exclusively on the properties of the import format rather than knowing
> details about many VCSes.
Yeah, I'm not aware of any similar tools at the moment. Unfortunately
the bzr and hg fastimport/fastexport streams are not yet lossless at the
moment, but things are slowly improving. The vcs-fastimport-devs list
was originally started to discuss extensions to the fastimport format,
and some have already made it in.

> > I wasn't aware of reposurgeon and I'm not sure if the others are.
> Unsurprising. The project is very new, at 0.4 and barely two weeks old.
> I only announced it a week ago.
Ah, cool. Thanks for sending the announcement, I'll give it a try next
time I need to do some repository surgery.

Cheers,

Jelmer