[Pkg-bazaar-maint] ABI issues and package versioning

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Robert Collins wrote:
> I asked scott about the upload to Ubuntu, and he noted:
> 
>> If you have ABI issues, it should be reflected in the packaging. 

> I think hes entirely correct :).
I agree as well - and that's what I replied to the bug he filed
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr-gtk/+bug/116378). The package seems
to've been uploaded about an hour after the bug report though, not
leaving a lot of room for discussion (I'm not really familiar with
Ubuntu policy though, so that may be correct).

> So.. I think we should tighten the dependencies for all the packages
> which warn when bzr's version is mismatched:
> 
> bzrtools
> bzr-gtk
> bzr-svn
> 
> They should not conflict: (its not an unpacking problem) but rather have
> breaks:. Hmm, I wonder if theres a 'I am broken by' rather than 'I break
> X' header. Anyway, 'breaks: bzr >> 0.16' is probably sufficient.
bzrtools already has the dependencies correct (depends on bzr >= 0.16
and bzr << 0.17). I'll fix bzr-svn.

Cheers,

Jelmer