0.96.0, 0.99.0 tarball does not contain credits.pickle

[Mark Lee]

I'm packaging bzr-gtk-0.96.0 for the Bazaar Gentoo overlay, and during install, it errors out with the following:

error: can't copy 'credits.pickle': doesn't exist or not a regular file

A grep of the list of files in bzr-gtk-0.96.0.tar.gz confirms that credits.pickle does not exist in the tarball. I'd like to avoid calling the build_credits command of setup.py, as not only would it need network access to create the pickle, but it would also add a build-time only dependency on bzr-stats.

[Vincent Ladeuil (vila)]

Right, forgive the first-time release-manager, 0.96.1 is on its way, http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr-gtk/releasing has been corrected accordingly.

[Vincent Ladeuil (vila)]

People who downloaded http://edge.launchpad.net/bzr-gtk/trunk/0.96.0/+download/bzr-gtk-0.96.0.tar.gz
can still safely use it as long as they don't want to package it themselves.
Since there has been only 3 downloads so far, you know who you are :)

[Christian Faulhammer (fauli)]

The problem reappeared for the 0.99.0 release...I want to package for the official Gentoo tree.

[Rainer Müller (raimue)]

I am also having the same problem again with 0.99.0 while packaging for MacPorts.

[Christian Faulhammer (fauli)]

Can we have a regenerated tarball please?

[C-S (c-s)]

I solved this problem by patching it away in my FreeBSD port (http://www.freshports.org/devel/bzr-gtk/). Have a look:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/bzr-gtk/files/patch-setup.py?rev=1.1;content-type=text%2Fplain

I know that this is a bad solution but it's the best I could do...

[Christian Faulhammer (fauli)]

I am reluctant to patch out a credits file...unfortunately this prevents entry of Bazaar 2.2.0 in the testing section of Portage tree in Gentoo.

[C-S (c-s)]

I totally agree with Christian. I am not happy at all, especially because everybody here knows that this bug is not really a big deal. One step in the release process was forgotten, that's all. Hence, please just re-release bzr-gtk as 0.9.1....

[C-S (c-s)]

By the way. My reason for doing the patch was that bzr 2.2.0 was already published in the ports system. Hence not porting bzr-gtk 0.9.0 would have left many users unhappy, as the old bzr-gtk 0.8.7 is not compatible with bzr 2.2.0.

[Rainer Müller (raimue)]

The problem reappeared once again for bzr-gtk 0.104.0. My new bug report #1032995 has been marked as a duplicate of this one here, so please reopen.