Re: [bug-gsrc] Update Bazaar, add Python (dependency)

[Luke Shumaker]

On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 16:24 +0000, Brian Gough wrote:
> At Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:51:50 -0500,
> Luke Shumaker wrote:
> > This updates to the latest non-beta release of Bazaar, and adds Python,
> > which is needed by Bazaar.
> > 
> > For Bazaar, GPG currently gives back a message about the public key not
> > being found.
> > 
> > For Python, I cannot figure out how to fetch the sig file (see the
> > Makefile for info).  The public keys for Python are at
> 
> Thanks for the Bazaar patch.
> 
> I've been reluctant to add Python as a full dependency, due to its
> size and the fact that most people will have it installed already.
> 
> I think we really need some kind of mechanism to specify system
> packages like python-dev and tell the user to "apt-get install
> python-dev" (or whatever is appropriate on their system) if needed.

I've been thinking about a system to tag a package as installed by
another source, and to treat it as successfully installed.  This gives
me two questions:
 1) Would you accept such a patch?
 2) Would I have to maintain compatibility with existing `.gar/',
`cookies/' and such?  Not that I plan on breaking it, but it will
probably affect design decisions.

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