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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Branch linked: lp:~jml/testtools/better-snapshot-613734

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Hard to make snapshots for use with buildout
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/613734
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Status in testtools: Triaged

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.