Comment 1 for bug 278858

Situation is actually much worse than that. bzr 1.9 fails to execute "bzr init" in any directories, containing a .svn entry, if the svn plugin is not installed. It does not matter, if .svn is a directory or a file, it crashes with an "internal error" due to failed import.

bzr 1.9 on python 2.5.2 (linux2)
arguments: ['/home/aradi/local/x86_64.Linux/bin/bzr', 'init']
encoding: 'UTF-8', fsenc: 'UTF-8', lang: 'en_US.UTF-8'
plugins:
  email /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/email [unknown]
  gtk /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/gtk [0.93.0]
  launchpad /home/aradi/local/x86_64.Linux/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad [unknown]
  svn /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/svn [0.4.9]
*** Bazaar has encountered an internal error.
    Please report a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+filebug
    including this traceback, and a description of what you
    were doing when the error occurred.

Of course, using --no-plugins helps, but that's more than annoying.

Regards,

   Bálint