Call for better Bazaar packaging on Ubuntu

[Ian Clatworthy]

James Westby wrote:
> Ian Clatworthy wrote:
>>
>> The "Bazaar Desktop" installer will include and install
>> by default at least the following:
>>
>> * Bazaar Explorer
>> * QBzr
>> * commonly used bzr plugins
>> * core bzr
>> * nice documentation.
>>
>> I'd like to suggest a
>> similar effort to improve our packaging on Ubuntu. In particular, I'd
>> like to see an entry in Add/Remove Applications called "Bazaar Desktop"
>> will similar contents to the above:
> 
> We can do that with a meta-package. Getting it to show up in
> gnome-app-install is a little more work though.

Any chance of this meta-package happening for karmic?

>> We should arguably also clean-up the *existing* Bazaar-related packages
>> in Add/Remove. There are 3 - Bazaar, Bazaar Area Notification, Olive
>> Bazaar Branch Manager - and all 3 of them have exactly the same
>> description. :-(
> 
> I think that's a limitation of the design of gnome-app-install.
> 
> I'll discuss these things with mvo when he returns from paternity leave.

Any updates on this? If there's *one* OS Bazaar ought to be well
packaged on, it's Ubuntu. :-)

Ian C.