[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#553470: may cause repository corruption

[Robert Millan]

Package: bzr-svn
Version: 0.4.10-2
Severity: critical
Justification: data loss

Using version 0.4.10-2 of this plugin to push commits from Bazaar to SVN
resulted in severe data loss.  Corrupted data spread to a number of branches
in our repository, as well as ~/.bazaar/svn-cache, forcing us to re-generate
the whole repository almost from scratch.

I believe this is only a problem with 0.4.10, and perhaps only associated with
pushing (and not with pulling).

I strongly recommend that the 0.4.10 version is removed from Lenny, maybe by
replacing it with a newer upstream release, or otherwise completely removing
it so that Lenny users will upgrade to the version in Backports.

Or, with the assumption that this problem only affects push operations, push
support could be disabled in the Lenny version.

More details available at:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/462988

I keep a complete copy of the old repository (both local and remote), as
well as my svn-cache dir, in case you need further information.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-libre2-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bzr-svn depends on:
pn  bzr                           <none>     (no description available)
ii  python                        2.5.2-3    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central                0.6.8      register and build utility for Pyt
pn  python-subvertpy              <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages bzr-svn recommends:
pn  python-tdb                    <none>     (no description available)
ii  python-xdg                    0.15-1.1   A python library to access freedes

Versions of packages bzr-svn suggests:
pn  bzr-rebase                    <none>     (no description available)