Please sponsor upload for splatd

[Nick Barkas]

I have a debdiff for upgrading the splatd package to its newest release. I'll attach that.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Please attach the complete package and please follow https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess#head-9c768217b322f8567d24d91647eaf0a256a73046 as we're in Upstream Version Freeze.

[Nick Barkas (snb)]

Attached is the complete package.

Getting this as an exception to the UVF would be nice. There was a bug fixed in the 1.1.1 release of Splat which is mentioned here: http://dpw.threerings.net/viewvc/splat?view=rev&revision=262. If this can't make it into gutsy, how should I modify this bug to get the update into gutsy+1?

[Nick Barkas (snb)]

I don't have a diff of the upstream changelog, because there isn't one.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Then please come up with something that describes the upstream changes in this release.

[Nick Barkas (snb)]

Since I am the upstream author of the changes between the 1.1 and 1.1.1 versions, I'll just summarize here:

* The home helper plugin was removed and replaced with a python module called homeutils, which just provides some support functions that can be used by other plugins that deal with home directories. This removes the need for plugins to subclass each other, which was confusing.

* There was a bug where groups that define their own custom options ended up wiping out all the other service options as a consequence of parseOptions() deleting key value pairs in homedir, .forward, and ssh plugins. This caused things to happen like the ssh plugin wouldn't create home directories if there was a group configured with any group-specific options, even when makehome was set to true in splat.conf, and was fixed by having parseOptions() stop being destructive when reading the options dictionary.

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

if you're the upstream author, you'll presumably fix any bugs as they come up.

Therefore, +1.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Ack #2 and approved by motu-uvf. Please sign up as a bugmail contact for the package if you haven't.

[Nick Barkas (snb)]

Thanks! I am a bugmail contact on this package.

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

uploaded, thanks.