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  • Committer: John Arbash Meinel
  • Date: 2011-05-11 11:35:28 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 5851.
  • Revision ID: john@arbash-meinel.com-20110511113528-qepibuwxicjrbb2h
Break compatibility with python <2.6.

This includes auditing the code for places where we were doing
explicit 'sys.version' checks and removing them as appropriate.

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you should set it to "In Progress" and if you wish assign it to yourself.
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You might like to start with a bug tagged `easy
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<https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bugs?field.tag=easy>`_.
 
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<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bugs?field.tag=easy>`_.
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Making a branch
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    $ ./bzr selftest
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Normally the tests will skip if some library dependencies are not present.
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On Ubuntu, you can install them with this command (you must have some
 
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On Ubuntu, you can install them with this command (you must have source
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repositories enabled in Software Sources)::
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    $ sudo apt-get build-dep bzr
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Then propose a merge into bzr; for bzr 2.2 and later you can use the ``bzr
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propose-merge`` command.  In the comment for your merge proposal please
 
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lp-propose-merge`` command.  In the comment for your merge proposal please
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explain what you're trying to do and why.  For `example
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<https://code.launchpad.net/~ian-clatworthy/bzr/whats-new-in-2.1/+merge/19677>`_:
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