Bug 720466

Summary:	Mercurial 1.9 in Fedora 14 breaks tortoisehg
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mads Kiilerich <mads>
Component:	mercurial	Assignee:	Neal Becker <ndbecker2>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	14	CC:	dennis, mads, ndbecker2, vvitek
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Description Mads Kiilerich 2011-07-11 17:38:19 UTC

Mercurial 1.9 is currently in updates-testing for Fedora 14.

The internal API in Mercurial is however not stable and Mercurial can thus not be upgraded from 1.8.4 to 1.9 in Fedora 14 without breaking TortoiseHg 1.x.

There is no TortoiseHg 1.x release that supports Mercurial 1.9. Upgrading to TortoiseHg 2.x as an "update" in Fedora 14 is not an option - it is a major rewrite and based on qt instead of gtk. 

Mercurial 1.9 must be dropped from updates-testing for Fedora 14 and _not_ marked as stable. The poor guys who have installed updates from updates-testing will have to downgrade manually (unless Mercurial makes an epoch change).

(Mercurial is a very mature product and with very few bugs. There is thus no significant need for pushing all releases as bugfix updates to stable Fedora releases - especially not major releases and considering the risk of API changes.)

Comment 1 Neal Becker 2011-07-12 10:41:40 UTC

OK.
mercurial-1.9-2.fc14 has been unpushed