[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#665949: Bug#665949: bzr-rewrite: Update for 2.6

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:30:32PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Package: bzr-rewrite
> Version: 0.6.3-1
> Severity: grave
> 
> Since the upload of 2.6 pre-releases of bzr to unstable, the bzr-rewrite
> package is not installable anymore. So, please update the package.
Thanks, I'll have a look.

> I don't really understand why bzr 2.6 was uploaded, though, given that the
> wheezy freeze will happen in June, while 2.6 will be released in August (
> 2 months *after* the freeze). Does not make much sense to me.

In the past, we've been too conservative with the version of bzr in
Unstable. Lenny had bzr 1.5 and Squeeze had 2.1, both of which were
out of date release series a few days into the freeze. In
the case of Lenny this meant that some newer repositories couldn't be
read by Lenny users. In the case of squeeze this meant that a large
number of performance improvements didn't make it into the release. In
addition, both 1.6 and 2.2 carried a large number of bug fixes.

Bazaar has a really extensive testsuite and is fairly conservative
about what ends up in trunk. Newer snapshots have consistently been
much better than older versions, even releases. Regression are pretty
rare.

Personally, I don't think the beta moniker is appropriate for the kinds of
releases that are done; they're pretty similar to the monthly releases
we used to do, with the exception that we now have release series,
with no features or API changes being introduced after the last beta.

The current schedule puts the last beta release (beta 5) somewhere in
the first couple of days of July. There is some flexibility upstream
too though, so if it helps we can possibly skip it or pull it forward.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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