Dear all,
I would like to have trac 0.12 as a squeeze backport. I already
contacted Arthur de Jong (cc), the uploader of trac in current testing.
I think that trac qualifies as popular enough for backports. I also
volunteer in maintaining the backport and have already subscribed to the
BTS system.
Luckily, trac can be packaged and run on a plain squeeze machine without
any other adjustments. Arthur has created a branch of the debian files
in [1] and already said he could do the upload, the only change is a
small log mesage in changelog.
I also ran the unit tests and they ran through except for some PHP
highlighting tests. I followed this problem through and it appears to be
a problem with Python's os.system() and repetetive calls to it. When the
test order is changed then these particular tests run through, and the
tests already run through when ran in isolation (not calling the main
test driver but only that of tracopt). Also, the original test driver
runs through when run on an Ubuntu version, so I guess it is only a
problem with some weird side effects of os.system() in squeeze's Python
version.
Furthermore, I ran a trac instance and created a wiki page with PHP code
on it ({{{#!php\n<?php echo("Hi there!"); ?>'n}}}) and the code was
highlighted correctly.
Thus, I think this bug only appears in the unit tests when ran in a
particular way and this will (hopefully/probably) be fixed upstream.
Is there anything else I can/should do?
Bests,
Manuel
[1]
http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/python-apps/packages/trac/branches/squeeze-backports/