bzr-git, Dulwich, PPAs and Lucid

[Martin Pool]

On 18 August 2010 10:36, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
> Hi Russel,
>
> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 11:50 +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
>> I am not sure if this is a bug or a feature ;-)
>>
>> I have the Bazaar PPA on my list of sources and bzr-git is there for
>> Lucid in its latest guise.  However, the dependency of this package is
>> on a later version of Dulwich than is available in Lucid or on the
>> Bazaar PPA.  Unless I am missing it the Launchpad page for Dulwich
>> doesn't refer to a Dulwich PPA.  Any chance of a package somewhere so as
>> to keep Aptitude happy?
>>
>> (Dulwich used to have packages on the Bazaar PPA, so that might be the
>> best place?)
> There is a Dulwich PPA at http://launchpad.net/~dulwich/+archive/ppa,
> and the Bazaar PPA has a dependency on it.
>
> This PPA has a newer version of Dulwich - 0.6.1-1, which should be new
> enough for the bzr-git in the PPA.
>
> What's the error you're getting exactly? Are you using the Lucid version
> of the PPA?

I think this is the issue discussed in the other thread: ppa
dependencies are only used for building; clients need to add each of
them.  (add-apt-repository will do this for you on the client side.)
We should perhaps copy the packages across.

-- 
Martin