[Bug 1403042] Re: bzr seems to be the wrong version on 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

[Hans Joachim Desserud]

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Bzr 2.6.0+bzr6595-6ubuntu1 on Ubuntu Vivid also prints 2.7.0dev1 when
running `bzr --version`. Based on the package version number, what I
believe happened was that 2.6.0 was released and upstream continued with
new development  for the next planned release (2.7.0). Then for some
reason some of the features or bug fixes was needed for the Ubuntu
package, so they grabbed a newer revision (bzr6595) and made a package
based on that. So 2.6.0+bzr6595-6ubuntu1 is really 2.6.0 plus some of
the changes on the road to 2.7.0, which would explain why the internal
bzr version claims to be the development version of 2.7.0

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Title:
  bzr has mismatched version numbers (package says 2.6.0, bzr --version
  says 2.7.0dev1)

Status in bzr package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hi!

  I have installed bazaar from the Trusty repository. The version
  advertised on the package is suppose to be 2.6.0 but when I try bzr
  --version I get the following.

  Bazaar (bzr) 2.7.0dev1
    Python interpreter: /usr/bin/python 2.7.6
    Python standard library: /usr/lib/python2.7
    Platform: Linux-3.13.0-41-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
    bzrlib: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bzrlib
    Bazaar configuration: /home/tdtwister/.bazaar
    Bazaar log file: /home/tdtwister/.bzr.log

  Copyright 2005-2012 Canonical Ltd.
  http://bazaar.canonical.com/

  bzr comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  bzr is free software, and
  you may use, modify and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU
  General Public License version 2 or later.

  Bazaar is part of the GNU Project to produce a free operating system.

  I also downloaded the sec file from
  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/bzr/bzr_2.6.0+bzr6593.orig.tar.gz

  and in the bzrlib/__init__.py I see the following:

  version_info = (2, 7, 0, 'dev', 1)

  More over there are some weird bugs in this version like bzr not being
  able to detect or apply(with merge) changes to the file-system
  permission. I am not sure If I need a different bug for that or if
  this is a consequence of the wrong version.

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