Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Please drop Bazaar

[carl hansen]

On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 8:48 AM Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu.org> wrote:

>    >>>> Hello,
>    >>>> Please drop Bazaar.
>
[ ...]

Sanity conservation notes:


on page  https://www.gnu.org/software/  in the list packages for "bazaar"
the link  goes to
https://web.archive.org/web/20230506175749/http://bazaar.canonical.com/en/
which is out of date, and replaced.

Meanwhile on  https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/bazaar
"bazaar" is  a completely unrelated package, an object-oriented connection
to relational databases.


The source for the source control "bazarr" is currently
https://code.launchpad.net/bazaar

"bazaar" is also known as "bzr" on the command line. It is a python2
program.
It was developed on the Canonical  website known as launchpad.net.

Canonical forked it, to rewrite it in python3, and renamed it, giving it
a cutsie name and command line name "breezy" and "brz"

https://code.launchpad.net/~brz/brz/trunk

brz reads the bzr format so they are compatible in use.

Also brz reads git and mercurical vcs databases so it acts as a
command line unification utility, which is  cool. Version 3.3.9 current.

on Debian the commands "bzr" and "brz" link to the save "brz" executable,
which is the breezy python3 version



Should GNU drop "bazaar"? Not really,
Just fix the urls and name on gnu.org website, don't call it "bazaar" and
use correct link.