[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#498625: Bug#498625: bzr: Branching fails with "pack already exists", then succeeds

[James Westby]

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 17:47 +0200, Roland Mas wrote:
>   For some reason, the first time I try to clone the patched/foo
> branch, I get a failure with the above message.  Doing the very same
> command again works, as does branching immediately afterwards under
> another name (before the rm -r).  I can live with the workaround, but
> that sounds fishy, and Jelmer suggests I report the bug.

Hi Roland,

Is is always the same branch that causes this?

Does the pack it mentions exist in .bzr/repository/packs after the
error? Does it still exist after succeeding? When it does succeed
does it add a pack of different name? (ls -l .bzr/repository/packs
before during and after would answer all of this).

Also, could you please also grab the failure when run as
"bzr -Derror branch..." please? (Alternatively grab a stanza
showing the problem from your ~/.bzr.log)

Thanks,

James