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[Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew SB wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> If you've been following along in Bug #425507 [0], you'll know that a
> Debian packaging branch for bzr-explorer [1] and an Ubuntu PPA have
> recently been set up. By chance, this happened to coincide with the
> 0.9.0 release!

Andrew,

That's wonderful news. Thank-you!

> So I'm happy to announce that packages for Karmic,
> Jaunty, Intrepid, and Hardy have been uploaded to the  Bazaar Explorer
> PPA. [2] They are currently sitting in what appears to be a long the
> build queue. So it might be a few hours before they are actually
> availiable.
> 
> Please note that as bzr-explorer depends on bzr (>= 1.14) and qbzr (>=
> 0.11), users of Ubuntu releases before Karmic will also need to add
> the PPA for Bazaar Developers. [3]

Right. I suspect Hardy might have some issues given one of two bits of
Explorer (e.g. the Preferences dialog) depend on Qt/PyQt 4.4. See
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr-explorer/+bug/429549.

> As this is the first release of the packaging, we might want to get
> some testers to kick the tires before announcing widely. I wouldn't
> want any flaws in my packaging to detract from your lovely product.
> I've tested the Karmic package myself, but I don't have any older
> systems laying around to work with. Once they are built and I wake up
> in the morning (about 12:30 am my time as I write this), I'll probably
> post a call for testing on my blog which gets syndicated on Planet
> Ubuntu.

It's worth posting to the main Bazaar mailing list as well.

> After a little time testing we can get the packages copied
> over to the main Bzr PPA for wider consumption.

Sounds a good plan to me.

Ian C.