[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#454504: Bug#454504: closed by Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at vernstok.nl> (Unable to fix)

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:11:06PM +0200, Roland Mas wrote:
> Jelmer Vernooij:
> 
> > The recent work on using a rich root format by default has made it a
> > lot less necessary to work with different formats, so that should at
> > least reduce the likeliness of having multiple formats that bzr has to
> > convert between.
> 
>   Fair enough.
> 
> > Alternatively, do you think it would perhaps be useful if bzr warned
> > when it had to do a slow conversion when fetching?
> 
>   Maybe, but if the dichotomy slowly disappears and most of the
> repositories are either created or converted to the rich-root world,
> then I can understand that there's no real need to go to extra effort
> for what's essentially a disappearing problem.  Unless the rich-root
> variants won't be made the default for some time yet.

The bzrtools upstream repo has been converted to a rich-root format just
now, the idea is to see how that pans out, incorporate lessons learned,
upgrade bzr.dev, disseminate.

It won't all happen this week, but I expect things to be rolling by
1.17.

Wouter van Heyst