On Saturday 27,February,2010 03:57 PM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> [...]
>
> No, a new release from the old-maintenance branch, which (to my
> knowledge) has incorporated the fixes from Ubuntu (AFAIK, there were no
> Debian-specific fixes). My apologies if I was unclear in specifying
> that the release I was talking about came from the same branch as that
> which is already in Debian.
>
> The dev releases are not quite alpha, but they are not releases that I
> would recommend be in Debian or Ubuntu unless they were packaged under a
> different name that was obviously known to be unstable. I'm not ready
> for that until the last feature is implemented, and even then, there
> will be a period of testing before I call it 0.8.0 and release it and
> welcome distributors to package it.
It could probably enter Debian Experimental, but not Debian Unstable, Testing or
Ubuntu, but this is to be handled by the new alltray package maintainer in Debian.
> You may want to check the branches on LP:
>
> https://edge.launchpad.net/alltray
>
> Which include the old-maintenance branch and its recent release, 0.71a,
> which is a bug fix release of 0.70.
I am sorry, but I was looking at https://edge.launchpad.net/alltray/+download
and could not find it, so I assumed that 0.70 was the latest prior to the
rewrite. Is that tarball an automatically generated tarball of a tag or
something? I think you should make it available at the aforementioned downloads
page as it is confusing and not discoverable to have your tarballs all over the
place.
>
> [...]
>
> As far as I am aware, 0.71a (again, not 0.7.{1,2,3,4}-dev, which is
> indeed a re-write; 0.71a is a continuation of the 0.70 line)
> incorporates all the fixes that were present in ubuntu. This is why I
> am confused at the sync request here, it doesn't make sense. Debian bug
> 566880 is, as I understand it, going to be resolved with an upload of
> AllTray 0.71a, which should _then_ be brought to Ubuntu (though if it
> comes to Ubuntu directly, that would also be fine---0.71a is a stable
> release with bug fixes from 0.70).
As I have just mentioned, there was quite a bit of confusion as to what
constitutes a new release from the old-maintenance branch, considering the
tarballs aren't available from your main downloads page.
> In short (and this is just my 2¢ as the author of new AllTray and
> maintainer of the old AllTray source code), I don't think 0.70-1 should
> be imported from Debian. 0.71a should be available in Debian soon, and
> I suspect that will result in a package 0.71a-1, which would be suitable
> for inclusion in Ubuntu (as the 0.69 patches that I recall being in
> ubuntu had to be adopted and backported from the old-maintenance bzr
> tree in the first place, like the GTK tooltip/balloon fix).
Yes, that's right. 0.71a should be synced from Debian once it gets ready,
assuming all our Ubuntu-specific patches so far can be dropped (if they have all
been applied upstream, for example) then.
I will mark this sync request as invalid then. Please make a new one when the
time comes (or poke me either via IRC or email and I will look into it).
affects ubuntu/alltray
status invalid
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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Developer
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