Please backport gnunet* 0.8.0 packages
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Hardy Backports |
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Bug Description
GNUnet is the secured peer-to-peer framework of the GNU project. It has just released a 0.8.0 version that breaks network protocol compatibility with 0.7.3, which is packaged in Hardy. Thus, GNUnet in Hardy is almost useless since less and less peers will be in the old network.
Moreover, in Hardy, gnunet-gtk suffers from the critical bug 217962: it is completely unusable due to a version mismatch when syncing from Debian. Beside this, many many major improvements have been done, as well as bug fixes (see homepage).
GNUnet consists in 3 source packages:
- source package gnunet: gives gnunet (virtual), gnunet-server, gnunet-tools, gnunet-client, gnunet-common, gnunet-fuse (+ -dev and -gdb packages)
- source package gnunet-gtk (depends on gnunet)
- source package gnunet-qt (depends on gnunet)
The gnunet package has entered Intrepid recently from a sync with Debian (bug 217962). The others are still waiting (for no reason), and can enter Intrepid as soon as we want them to. Anyway, the gnunet package should be backported before or at the same time as the others because of the versioned depends.
External dependencies: gnunet* 0.8.0 requires libmicrohttpd4 (0.3.1) which is not in Hardy (libmicrohttpd3 is there). This should not be a real problem since gnunet is the only package using libmicrohttpd, and .so names are versioned: this is backport bug 240136.
Please just ask for further information, help or testing. Thanks for your work!
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Shouldn't this be a stable release update instead, if the current packages in hardy are unuseable?