[Bug 1577847] Re: Demote Bazaar to universe?

[Vincent Ladeuil]

@Bryan: Hi !

Well, it's up to Canonical to decide whether they want to depend on the
community to maintain a tool that is/was used for Canonical internal
projects (or finally plan to migrate away from it).

I can't speak for breezy devs as I'm not involved (enough) there nor can
I speak for Canonical since I'm not there anymore ;-)

In a nutshell, I suspect Canonical will drop Bazaar (aka demotes it to
universe which means it can still be installed and used as long as
python2 is supported).

The fallouts for the other Bazaar users are unclear and it's up to them
to decide if they want to stick with Bazaar or go to Breezy (a
relatively safe bet as long as you don't expect python3 support to
happen overnight).

Just my 2 cents, I wish all vcs users to find their preferred tool
available when and where needed ;-)

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Title:
  Demote Bazaar to universe?

Status in bzr package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Release to act on:  Dev (currently 16.10)
  Src: bzr
  Bin: bzr bzr-doc python-bzrlib python-bzrlib-dbg python-bzrlib.tests

  Bazaar development is in maintenance mode and there are not resources to port it to python 3.
  reverse-recommends sorted:
  all in universe - bugs-everywhere bikeshed bzr-dbus bzr-email bzr-loom bzr-pipeline gedit-developer-plugins ikiwiki jhbuild open-font-design-toolkit python-vcstools ubuntu-dev-tools

  From this point on, I ignore any I've already covered that are in
  universe.

  reverse-depends sorted:
   * universe: bzr-builddeb bzr-builder  bzr-explorer bzr-fastimport bzr-git bzr-loom bzr-search bzr-stats bzr-tweet bzr-upload bzr-webdav bzr-xmloutput charm-tools config-manager juju-deployer loggerhead lptools phablet-tools qbzr qct
   * main:
    ** bzrtools
    ** etckeeper (depends on git or mercurual or bzr or darcs)
    ** git-remote-bzr

  reverse-depends -b src:bzr
  Reverse-Build-Depends-Indep:
   * main: bzrtools git-remote-bzr (see above)
   * universe: python-gasp

  Reverse-Build-Depends:
   * universe: mysql-utilities ocamlbricks
   * main?: webapps-applications

  This is not reach for archive action yet, I just wanted to start the
  discussion here.

  Out of the discussion from UOS May 2016 there was talk about demoting
  Bazaar from Main to Universe as part of us moving Python 2 eventually
  to universe.  http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1605/meeting/22675/finish-
  move-to-py3/

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