[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#553470: What to do?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Hi Robert,

On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 00:48 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:11:41AM +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > I'm not sure what the best thing is to do here.
> > 
> > This situation should be unusual, and it does not corrupt any of the
> > data in the original Subversion or Bazaar repositories. It's only a
> > problem if you push introduce a new file in a merged revision that is
> > not changed by the merging revision and then try to pull those changes
> > down to a bzr repository that is older than 2a. Even after that, bzr
> > will complain but the data should be ok.
> > 
> > Putting a newer version of bzr-svn into Lenny wouldn't really be an
> > option, as this would require us to put newer versions of bzr, bzr-gtk,
> > etc in as well. This would be too risky.
> > 
> > I don't think removing bzr-svn completely would be necessary. Another
> > alternative would be to simply disable the ability to do round-tripping
> > pushes (or round-tripping pushes of merges?) into Subversion and only
> > allow dpush. 
> 
> Note that the second time we experienced repository corruption, we were
> using bzr-svn 1.0.0 and only for pulls, never for pushing to svn.  This
> was with a pre-2a format though.
> 
> I'm not sure what's the cause anymore.  It could also have been related to
> our use of bzr+ssh (see https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?107077)
> with an old (1.6) bzr daemon.
What sort of problems did you hit the second time around?

Were all of the bzr: revision and file properties before you had problems with this repository the second time, and were all of the caches/old bzr repositories removed? Perhaps this was just another problem created by the invalid data set by the older version of bzr-svn?

Cheers,

Jelmer

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