[hardy] New upstream release 0.2.11.1

[Kow]

Binary package hint: exaile

Current version in universe: 0.2.11

[Kow (kow)]

Here is the DSC for the new version I built.

[Kow (kow)]

How do you add multiple attachments? :P

[Kow (kow)]

The final piece of the puzzle (I think.)

[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

Can you try to do a debdiff of the package ?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Recipes/Debdiff

[Kow (kow)]

Here is the interdiff between the 2 versions.

[Kow (kow)]

interdiff -p1 <old ver> <new ver> > <the attach>

[Johannes Sasongko (sjohannes)]

The only change between 0.2.11 and 0.2.11.1 is that previously the .bzr directory was accidentally included in the upstream tarball (which amounts to several megabytes). The size of the .deb files in hardy seems alright, so I think this is not needed.

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

I think an update to reduce the tar file size isn't a bad thing, but I'm concerned about other things I see in the candidate version, and so won't be sponsoring this candidate.

Section: universe/devel seems incorrect for a media player: sound would be more appropriate.

The maintainer has changed without explanation. More relevantly, the listed Maintainer does not have an Ubuntu email address, yet the package carries an Ubuntu revision.

It's much preferable if python packages use the python-central or python-support structures for install-time compilation.

Has iPod support been dropped? If not, it might be worth suggesting python-gpod (or the equivalent)

It is generally not preferred to adjust the initial debianisation note in debian/copyright. Additional work should be noted in the copyright and licensing for the packaging at the bottom of debian/copyright.

Changes in debian/copyright silently drop attribution to Lee Willis for mmkeys

Packaging contributions from Adam Cécile have been dropped silently

Not every window manager supports .PNG icons, so the menu file should use an XPM.

I prefer if debian/ is not from upstream, as it makes it harder to adjust packaging if significant variance is preferred. Most critically, it is impossible to delete a file in the diff.gz, so if there are any files that the maintainer would like to remove, this requires special effort. The previous packaging repacked the tarball for this, which is also not an ideal solution.

DH_VERBOSE should be commented out in a production release

Some of the debian/rules rules don't seem to be doing anything useful (e.g. configure & dependencies)

Watch files should avoid using .*, as perl is greedy.

I've unsubscribed ubuntu-universe-sponsors pending resolution of the above. If a new candidate is prepared, please upload an interdiff generated with `interdiff -z exaile_0.2.11-0ubuntu1.diff.gz exaile_0.2.11.1-0ubuntu1.diff.gz`, and resubscribe ubuntu-universe-sponsors to request upload.

[Johannes Sasongko (sjohannes)]

These problems are due to the package being built with upstream's old,
broken, and basically unmaintained debian/ directory. The previous
Debian and Ubuntu packages totally replace it with their own versions.

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

appears to already be in the archive - Cody did this already.