On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 11:20 +0000, Stefano Rivera wrote:
> Yup, and it has mercurial 1.0.1-5.1 which is pretty ancient, and was
> never part of a stable Ubuntu release. It was part of a stable Debian
> release, lenny, but without this bug.

I think you're right. I wonder why they are using such an ancient
package.

> > I'm assuming metad is much newer than metad.
> 
> Than doesn't parse :)

Sorry, I meant metad newer than jaunty. But given the antiquity of the
package, I'm not sure any more.

> 
> > This appears to be a problem with the packaging
> 
> No, the issue is that common.py is appearing in mercurial. I don't see
> this on lenny or the version that built on Ubuntu: /usr/lib/python-
> support/mercurial/python2.4/hgext/inotify/common.py
> 
> I can see this in Ubuntu 1.0.1-5.1 on sparc, not entirely sure why,
> presumably there is/was something different in the behavior of python
> /python-support on sparc. However it was fixed in newer versions.

Ah I see.

> It certainly *was* a bug in Ubuntu, but it isn't any more. Sparc is no
> longer supported, and there are no supported versions of Ubuntu showing
> this bug.

Well let's hope that for the next gNewSense release, they use a recent
Ubuntu base.

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  Mercurial conflicts with python (jaunty sparc at least)

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