Hi Vagrant, On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 01:39:32PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2019-02-24, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > bzr has long been dormant upstream. It will be replaced in Debian (in > > buster+1) with Breezy (www.breezy-vcs.org), which is actively > > maintained and has a Python 3 port. Breezy has a command-line that is > > backwards compatible with Bazaar. > > > > Please consider porting git-remote-bzr to the 'breezy' Python module > > instead of using Bazaar's 'bzrlib'. Most of the porting process should > > be a matter of running s/bzrlib/breezy/ on your code. > > Given that git-remote-bzr provides a git frontend to a bzr repository, > I'm not sure the backwards compatible command-line interface sounds too > exciting... :) > > I don't personally work with many bzr repositorys anymore, so I would be > inclined to orphan git-remote-bzr to someone with a more vested interest > if bzr/bzrlib was dropped for buster+1. > > Upstream on git-remote-bzr hasn't been terribly active either: > > https://github.com/felipec/git-remote-bzr > > Though it's largely continued to work, which isn't a bad sign. Bazaar will be removed with the Python 2 transition, with transitional packages being added to upgrade users to Breezy.
git-remote-bzr is the only remaining blocker for the Bazaar to Breezy transition (and various plugin packages). Per the guidance in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=936618, what are your plans for the package? Thanks, Jelmer
