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[Robert Collins <613734@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't understand why this use case matters. I don't understand what
> this has to do with Launchpad.

>From time to time LP may want to run unreleased versions of testtools.
LP wants tar.gz files, and uses setuptools grahmagic to verify that
the version matches.

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hard to make snapshots for launchpad
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/613734
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Status in testtools: Incomplete

Bug description:
The setup.py magic to do -next-91 as a version works well when you have a checkout. Sadly it doesn't work well when you make a tarball and then want to use the tarball else where:

./setup.py sdist (makes testtools-next-91.tar.gz)
put next-91 in lp's versions.cfg
bootstrap then extracts this and runs setup again, which goes boom - no bzrlib, no working tree.
We should save the version in the manifest or something, for this use case.