Comment 2 for bug 709539

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote : Re: [Bug 709539] Re: launchpad doesn't accept branches in format developer-subtree (development format 8)

On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 03:42 +0000, Robert Collins wrote:
> I'm somewhat uncomfortable with LP having hosted branches of unstable
> formats. That seems liable to result in foot-gun events and an
> unpleasant user experience. IMBW.
I think that's a different discussion. Bazaar supports development
formats by default - it's just that Launchpad runs an old version of
Bazaar at at the moment.

Disabling the support for *all* development formats in the bzr running
on codehosting might be a good idea, but I think that's a different bug
than updating bzr to a newer version and updating lib/lp/code/bzr.py to
match.

I would be in favor of disabling the support for development formats -
it helps keep the repositories in experimental formats contained, as
they ought to be. If you would like me to file the appropriate bugs in
Launchpad/Bazaar for this, let me know.

Cheers,

Jelmer