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etckeeper package

etckeeper should default to bzr in Ubuntu

Bug #191680 reported by Jorge Castro
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etckeeper (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Daniel Hahler

Bug Description

Binary package hint: etckeeper

The bzr support in Mark A. Hershberger's branch is pretty awesome; I think it'd be nice to have that turned on by default for Ubuntu.

This depends on bug 189293 getting resolved.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/karmic/etckeeper
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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote :

I've included a fix for this in the package provided for bug 189293.

Changed in etckeeper:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote :

The upstream maintainer has now included bzr support, but does not recommend using it:
"""
However, etckeeper clearly doesn't work as well with bzr as it does with
git or mercurial, since bzr cannot support a commit hook that runs
etckeeper pre-commit. I'm going to make the documentation discuss this
limitation.

I see in launchpad that there's talk of making bzr the default rcs for
etckeeper in Ubuntu; I feel this would be a mistake.
"""
from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=470515#10

So, do we still want this?

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote :

It's possible to provide a pre-commit hook, by using a particular bzr plugin or the general bzr-shell-hooks plugin [1].
The plugin has been created by Jelmer Vernooij to add bzr support to etckeeper, which is available in git [2].

See bug 189293 for integration of bzr support in etckeeper.

[1] bzr-shell-hooks plugin: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2008q1/036955.html
[2] git tree for bzr support in etckeeper: http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=jelmer/etckeeper.git;a=summary

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote :

Fixed in the attached patch (and linked bzr branch).

Changed in etckeeper:
assignee: nobody → jelmer
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote :

My apologies for accidently subscribing ubuntu-main-sponsors rather than ubuntu-universe-sponsors, there's no way to unsubscribe somebody else unfortunately :-(

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote :
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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote :

Thanks, sponsoring.

Changed in etckeeper:
assignee: jelmer → blueyed
status: Fix Committed → In Progress
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package etckeeper - 0.25ubuntu1

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etckeeper (0.25ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Default to bzr. (LP: #191680)

 -- Jelmer Vernooij <email address hidden> Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:14:46 +0100

Changed in etckeeper:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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