Replace Bazaar with Breezy
Summary
This change is about replacing the 
bzr
Owner
- Name: Miro Hrončok
- Email: <mhroncok@redhat.com>
- Name: Marcel Plch
- Email: <mplch@redhat.com>
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 32
- Last updated: 2019-10-25
- Tracker bug: #1765576
- Release notes tracker: #415
Detailed Description
The bzr and git-remote-bzr, it contains /usr/bin/bzr (link to /usr/bin/brz) and /usr/bin/git-remote-bzr.
Packages
The reasons for this include:
- bzr is Python 2 only and Python 2 is retired
- bzr fails to build from source
- bzr fails to install
- bzr has no maintainer
Benefit to Fedora
Users of Fedora will be able to use bazaar repositories via breezy. If we don't do this, bzr would be simply removed without a replacement.
Scope
- Proposal owners: package
breezy
- Other developers: Test that your packages work with breezy (
- Release engineering: no impact with Release Engineering is anticipated
- Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
Upgrade/compatibility impact
Eventually removed depndent packages need to be obsoleted.
Breezy aims to be compatible with bazaar, but there might be some differences.
How To Test
Test that installing bzr installs breezy, test that you can use it successfully. Test that bzr gets replaced by breezy when upgrading to Fedora 32.
User Experience
Users installing bzr will get breezy instead. The bzr command will be provided as a symbolic link to the brz (breezy) command. The basic API of that command should be the same.
Contingency Plan
- Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) Proposal owners will orphan both breezy and bzr (sorry, but not sorry).
- Contingency deadline: final freeze
- Blocks release? No
- Blocks product? No
Documentation
Release Notes
TBD
