Bug#629329: pu: package sphinx/0.6.6-3+squeeze1
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 21:06:39 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 18:48 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> > I'd like to upload new version of Sphinx into s-p-u, which fixes
> > compatibility with jQuery >= 1.4. (Upstream ships a copy of jQuery
> > 1.2.6, but in Debian we use the packaged one, which is 1.4.2 in
> > squeeze.)
>
> I'm guessing there's no easy way to have the newer jQuery support both
> versions of the syntax? (Hey, it can't hurt to ask...)
>
> > There are 55 documentation packages in squeeze affected by this bug.
> > Unfortunately, the sole upload of Sphinx won't automatically fix them,
> > as they ship copies of broken javascript code. :(
>
> As I understand it, most of the affected packages are arch:all, so we
> can't simply fix the issues via a mass binNMU. I don't suppose you
> fancy no-change-NMUing 55 packages? ;-)
>
> > Debdiff contains also some minor documentation improvements, which were
> > committed to our svn before the Squeeze release. Of course, I can undo
> > them if you don't think they are suitable for a stable update.
>
> They look okay, particularly as the documentation doesn't appear to be
> translated (at least in the stable package); thanks.
>
I think it would make sense to get this sphinx upload in to squeeze,
even if we don't end up rebuilding the affected packages. At least so
new builds (and, maybe more importantly, users building their own sphinx
docs) are fixed.
Cheers,
Julien
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