[05:35] <jimt> I would like to migrate a bzr branch to git. The internet suggests I use bzr fast-export --plain to do that, but when I try using Bazaar 2.7.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 it complains that fast-export is an unknown command. Is there a plugin I need to install?
[05:42] <Peng> jimt: apt-get install bzr-fastimport
[05:42] <Peng> I can't say if it's particular the best tool for this job, but that is the package.
[05:43] <Peng> particularly*
[05:44] <jimt> Peng: Thanks.  I had tried installing bzr-fastimport, but Ubuntu warned me that it had been replaced by python-fastimport. And I have the latest version of that installed, but no fast-export command.
[05:45] <Peng> Oh. D:
[05:46] <jimt> And unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a python-fastexport (or anything obvious with export in its name).
[05:47] <Peng> I almost wonder if Ubuntu made a mistake... They added the package back in Yakkety.
[05:47] <Peng> The bzr-fastimport package, i mean.
[05:48] <fullermd> 'm pretty sure they're not the same thing...
[05:48] <Peng> The python-fastimport package appears not to contain bzr-fastimport.
[05:49] <fullermd> I use git-bzr-ng to maintain a git mirror of some bzr branches.  You might look at that.
[05:49] <Peng> http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/all/python-fastimport/filelist vs. http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/all/bzr-fastimport/filelist
[05:49] <Peng> Super weird. bzr-fastimport exists in 14.04 and 16.10 but not 16.04. ???
[05:50] <Peng> There are ways to install things that aren't Ubuntu packages, of course. But i don't get this.
[05:51] <jimt> Hmm... Since I only need to do this once, I'll just log in to a 14.04 machine. I should have tried that.
[05:51] <jimt> Thanks peng and fullermd for the help/suggestions.
[06:15] <jimt> Yes, it did indeed work on 14.04... so I've got the git repo I was after. I filed a bug on Launchpad about the missing package. Thanks again for the pointers.