Bug#686547: unblock: calibre/0.8.51+dfsg-1

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Control: tags -1 moreinfo
Control: retitle -1 unblock: calibre/0.8.64+dfsg-1

On 2012-09-03 06:22, jimmy the saint wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock
> 
> Please unblock package calibre
> 

Hi,

> There is a bug in the currently used version, which was fixed in 0.8.52,
> preventing the processing of .Lit files.  Since .Lit is one of the most
> commonly used ebook file formats, and Calibre is the primary ebook management
> software available for Debian users, this is significant.
> 
> Currently, version 0.8.60 is capable of migrating to Testing, except for the
> freeze request.
> 
> As per the email contact I had with the release team, I am including links to
> bugs file in Launchpad as well as the Calibre changelog.
> 

(per email being [1])

> Here are links to the  bugs in their bug tracker (he uses Launchpad).
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/998216
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/998248
> 
> Here is a link to the Calibre changelog.  You will note that the version info
> for 0.8.52 included a fix to the regression.
> 
> http://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new
> 

They look very much like something we would want a fix for.

> (include/attach the debdiff against the package in testing)
> 
> Alas, my Linux-fu is still at yellow belt level, and I have no idea how to work
> up a debdiff.
> 

debdiff is a tool in devscripts that accepts two .dsc files (and the
relevant orig.tar balls).  Something like

 $ dget http://$h/debian/pool/main/c/calibre/calibre_0.8.51+dfsg-1.dsc
 $ dget http://$h/debian/pool/main/c/calibre/calibre_0.8.64+dfsg-1.dsc
 $ debdiff calibre_0.8.51+dfsg-1.dsc calibre_0.8.64+dfsg-1.dsc \
    > calibre.debdiff

would have done.  Anyway, in the particular case I have already
requested the maintainers doing this as a t-p-u (i.e.
"testing-proposed-updates"), so we don't need the above mentioned
debdiff in this case.  :)

> unblock calibre/0.8.51+dfsg-1
> 
> [...]
> 

For the next time, please use the version number of the package you want
unblocked rather than the one in testing.  I have requested the bug
title being renamed accordingly.  :)


~Niels

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2012/09/msg00047.html