Bug 720466 - Mercurial 1.9 in Fedora 14 breaks tortoisehg
Summary: Mercurial 1.9 in Fedora 14 breaks tortoisehg
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mercurial
Version: 14
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Neal Becker
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2011-07-11 17:38 UTC by Mads Kiilerich
Modified: 2011-07-12 10:41 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-07-12 10:41:40 UTC
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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
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