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Thank you for packaging Bzrtools. Here are some notes.
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Bzrtools' major and minor version number should be the same as Bazaar's.
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Newer versions of Bzrtools may use APIs that are not present in older Bazaar
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versions. To be on the safe side, Bzrtools disables itself in this
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Old versions of Bzrtools may use APIs that are deprecated in newer versions
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of Bazaar. The deprecation period is one release, typically one month.
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So technically, slightly old versions of Bzrtools should work with newer
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versions of Bazaar. But even so, they will emit unpleasant deprecation
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In order to make things easier on maintainers, I've adopted the policy of
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releasing Bzrtools around the same time as the Bazaar release candidate.
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This gives you about a week of lead time before the final Bazaar release.
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Bzrtools releases are announced the bazaar@canonical.com and
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bazaar-announce@canonical.com mailing lists.
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Certain bzrtools use or can use tools from the following packages:
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- diff (shelve/unshelve)
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- patch (shelve/unshelve)
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- graphviz (graph-ancestry)
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- librsvg-bin (for antialiasing in graph-ancestry)
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These can be treated as recommended rather than hard dependencies, because
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many bzrtools commands will function properly without them.
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Additionally, the test suite uses testresources:
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http://www.robertcollins.net/unittest/testresources/
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Note that Medusa is not required for the Bzrtools test suite. Medusa is used
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strictly by Bazaar. ``bzr selftest bzrtools`` will suggest installing
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Medusa because ``bzr selftest`` always suggests installing Medusa, if it is
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not already installed.
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If you prefer, you can run the ``test.py`` script provided. It runs the same
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tests as ``bzr selftest bzrtools``.