mercurial on ubuntu

[Marcus Harnisch]

On 20/02/2021 19.07, Ernie Rael wrote:
> Doing "apt install mercurial" installed 5.5.1. So I thought I'd get the 
> latest, 5.7.1. The download page suggest using some PPA for ubuntu, it 
> seems years out of date.

Indeed we had a brief discussion a while back:

   https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial/2018-March/050807.html
   https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial/2019-April/051194.html

The recommendation to compile from sources doesn't make Mercurial an 
attractive option. The simple ‘make all install’ doesn't install ‘chg’ 
(which I believe is essential for a decent user experience), nor does it 
install shell completion, etc.

Is there anyone with Launchpad experience who could take care of this?

Cheers,
Marcus