Re: Please allow sphinx 0.4.2-1 into testing
Sandro Tosi wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 02:53, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <he@ftwca.de> wrote:
>> Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag@dottedmag.net> writes:
>>> Please allow sphinx 0.4.2-1 to move into testing, as it fixes RC bug
>>> (#492732) which prevents building documentation for python-matplotlib.
>>>
>>> 0.4.2 is a minor upstream release made especially for fixing this
>>> bug. The only other packaging change is getting rid of bundled jQuery in
>>> binary package.
>> But there are plenty of upstream changes. Please extract the patch
>> needed to fix #492732 and upload a fixed version based on 0.4.1-2
>> (currently in lenny) to testing-proposed-updates. This new upstream
>> release won't be unblocked.
>
> I'd like to discuss, based on the above comment, what I should do
> about matplotlib.
>
> Currently the archive has 0.98.1 mpl version, and we're working
> closely with upstream to let a new upstream release into Debian. The
> real goal for the new release is bugfixing and mainly documentation.
>
> We missed 0.98.2 version because of some glitches in doc generation,
> and we have reached yesterday the consensus on releasing 0.98.3 (they
> wait for my confirmation the debian package is working fine).
>
> I got the package almost ready in svn, and the great improvement is we
> are now able to generate matplotlib documentation at build time, and
> ship it in -doc package along with the binary one. It's a lot of doc,
> and given the possibility to users to have it on their system is
> really a plus (given the lots of API mpl has), and I think lenny users
> deserve this.
>
> In order to build such doc we need Sphinx 0.4.2 (due to changes in
> last version of sphinx, used in mpl docbase), and it's really
> impossible to backport the changes from 0.98.3 to 0.98.1 (the one in
> the archive).
>
> I'd like to know if I'm allowed to upload 0.98.3 version in the
> archive (when the sphinx situation will be fixed). Please note that
> upstreams are really responsive and they have waited for Debian to be
> comfortable with a new release before actually announce it in the last
> months.
Uploading to unstable doesn't really harm and it gives us a better idea
about how invasive the changes are you are talking about...
Cheers
Luk
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