New upstream version (1.2) was released on 2008-06-26, please update packages

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas]

Binary package hint: meld

New upstream version (1.2) was released on 2008-06-26, please update deb packages.

Main changes in new version (pasted from http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/meld/tags/release-1_2/changelog?view=markup ):

 * Improve tab rendering (Kai Willadsen)
 * Speedup folder comparison massively for large directories.
 * Fix crasher i18n bug (Kai Willadsen)
 * UI tweaks and cleanups (Tom Baugis, Kai Willadsen)
 * Cleanup vc library redundancy (Vincent Legoll)
 * Various version control fixes.

It seems this version will fix some bugs, already reported in Debian and Ubuntu.

[Michael Budde (mbudde)]

Upstream source can be grabbed from http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/meld/1.2/

[Michael Budde (mbudde)]

A deb is also available from my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~mbudde/+archive

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

Could you please take a pass over the Ubuntu bug list to see which
are fixed by the new upstream version. If there are some that you don't
know about then requesting testing of the new version would be appreciated.

I am working on sponsoring your package now.

Thanks,

James

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

When changing the standards version please state whether any changes
were required to use the new version. Also, when a package comes from
Debian updating the standards version in Ubuntu isn't usually worthwhile.

The Makefile patch you added doesn't have a bug reference, has it been
reported to GNOME bugzilla? If not please do so.

Otherwise it looks good, so I am uploading it. I trust you to forward the
patch if necessary.

Thanks,

James

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package meld - 1.2-0ubuntu1

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meld (1.2-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release. (LP: #283725)
  * debian/copyright:
    - Updated email of upstream author to what is stated in MAINTAINERS.
  * debian/control.in:
    - Bumped standards-version to 3.8.0.
  * debian/patches/html_patch_by_kai_willadsen.patch:
    - Removed, fixed upstream.
  * debian/patches/fix-fr-help-makefile.patch:
    - Ignore error when trying to install files from the non existent
      directory 'help/fr/figures'.
  * debian/patches/only-ignore-fully-blank-changes.patch:
    - Do not jump to the last blank change in blank changes are ignored and
      do not jump over blank changes if they are not ignored. Fixes bug that
      caused some differences to be ignored when using 'Up and 'Down' buttons.
      Patch by Martin Renold. (LP: #234259)
  * debian/patches/escape-paths.patch:
    - Escape paths so mime type is recoqnized correctly. Patch by Ivan
      Sergeyenko. Fixed in upstream development version. (LP: #152913)

 -- Michael Budde <email address hidden> Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:35:17 +0100

[Michael Budde (mbudde)]

On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 00:47 +0000, James Westby wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When changing the standards version please state whether any changes
> were required to use the new version. Also, when a package comes from
> Debian updating the standards version in Ubuntu isn't usually worthwhile.
>

Thank you for pointing that out.

> The Makefile patch you added doesn't have a bug reference, has it been
> reported to GNOME bugzilla? If not please do so.
>

My fault, forgot to search upstream bug tracker to see if the bug was
reported there and I can see now that it is already fixed upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540442

> Otherwise it looks good, so I am uploading it. I trust you to forward the
> patch if necessary.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>

I have also looked through the bug list and requested testing of the new
package as you requested.

- Michael

[James Westby (james-w)]

On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 13:04 +0000, Michael Budde wrote:
> My fault, forgot to search upstream bug tracker to see if the bug was
> reported there and I can see now that it is already fixed upstream:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540442
>

Cool, thanks.

> I have also looked through the bug list and requested testing of the new
> package as you requested.

Fantastic.

Thanks for your work.

James