Unable to convert Subversion path … because it contains characters invalid in Bazaar.

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 18:37 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Howdy all,
> 
> I'm trying to use Bazaar to checkout a Subversion branch and getting
> the following response:
> 
> =====
> bzr> aptitude show bzr-svn | grep 'Version:'
> Version: 0.4.9-1
> bzr> version
> Bazaar (bzr) 1.3.1
>   Python interpreter: /usr/bin/python 2.5.2.final.0
>   Python standard library: /usr/lib/python2.5
>   bzrlib: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib
>   Bazaar configuration: /home/bignose/.bazaar
>   Bazaar log file: /home/bignose/.bzr.log
> 
> bzr> checkout http://svn.wolffelaar.nl/lintian/trunk/ lintian.trunk/
> Unable to convert Subversion path testset/filenames/files/'\  because it contains characters invalid in Bazaar.
> =====
> 
> What hope is there to use this Subversion branch with Bazaar?

I tried:

	bzr branch svn+http://svn.wolffelaar.nl/lintian/trunk Lintian_Trunk

using bzr 1.5.0 + bzr-svn 0.4.10 and got exactly the same error message.
Looks like a "bug" report is in order.

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