Backport geany 0.15 to intrepid

[Dietmar Winkler]

Binary package hint: geany

Geany v0.15 has been released (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.geany.general/2551)
Could this please be backported to Interepid?

[Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा) (manishsinha)]

I don't think this comes under Bugs. It can be a request to make the new version available in repos.
Hardy comes with Geany 0.13 and Intrepid with 0.14. I think this is enough.

Please send discuss this on <email address hidden>

[Dietmar Winkler (dietmarw)]

Fine with me but where would I place such a request?

[Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा) (manishsinha)]

Am not sure but <email address hidden> or <email address hidden> would be a nice place.

[André Klitzing (misery)]

Geany 0.15 needs to be in Jaunty first.

[Dietmar Winkler (dietmarw)]

I think this is still a valid request but incomplete as Andre correctly pointed out.

[Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा) (manishsinha)]

@Dietmar
What more information is required?

I can see that the version of Geany in Jaunty is going to be 0.14 , not 0.15
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/geany/
Intrepid too has 0.14
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+source/geany/

What needs to be done to make 0.15 available in Jaunty? Atleast each new version should have newer version of software available.

[Dietmar Winkler (dietmarw)]

@Manish
The incomplete status is because we have to wait until the Debian package is available for 0.15 so that can be included in the Ubuntu dist. I don't think there is much sense in making a special Ubuntu package.
Having said that, getdeb.net has already a 0.15 deb available but having it in the standard repo would be nice anyway.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Can't be backported until bug 302107 is resolved

[Dietmar Winkler (dietmarw)]

Daniel, I agree this bug relies on 302107 in order to get fixed. BUT this does NOT mean that this one can't/ won't be fixed necessarily. So I leave it incomplete as there is no 'depends on' status available.

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

Not an Ubuntu bug but a backport one.

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

geany 0.15 reached Jaunty yesterday thanks to gpocentek, it builds fine with an Intrepid pbuilder and works fine on my system. I've been using the 0.15 version backported from experimental for something like 4 monthes without experimenting any issue, so an official backport should be ok.

[DYPA (dypa)]

http://www.getdeb.net/app/Geany has 0.15

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

But getting a package from getdeb is just an uggly workaround whereas a backport would be a clean solution...

[Frits Letteboer (f-letteboer)]

Confirmed: geany_0.15-1ubuntu1~8.10prevu1 builds, installs & runs

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

ack from ubuntu-backporters.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

 * Trying to backport geany...
  - <geany_0.16-0ubuntu5.dsc: downloading from librarian>
  - <geany_0.16-0ubuntu5.diff.gz: downloading from librarian>
  - <geany_0.16.orig.tar.gz: downloading from librarian>
I: Extracting geany_0.16-0ubuntu5.dsc ... done.
I: Building backport of geany-0.16 as 0.16-0ubuntu5~intrepid1 ... done.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

whoops, tool grabbed the wrong version by default; rolling that back.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

 * Trying to backport geany...
  - <geany_0.16-0ubuntu4.dsc: downloading from librarian>
  - <geany_0.16-0ubuntu4.diff.gz: downloading from librarian>
  - <geany_0.16.orig.tar.gz: downloading from librarian>
I: Extracting geany_0.16-0ubuntu4.dsc ... done.
I: Building backport of geany-0.16 as 0.16-0ubuntu4~intrepid1 ... done.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

<whistle>

ok, syncbugbot doesn't understand how to pass -S to backport-source; doing this by hand. :P

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

n/m, syncbugbot was working fine, it's simply that geany is at version 0.16-0ubuntu4 in jaunty rather than the originally approved 0.15-1ubuntu1. Scott, does the approval still apply to this new version?

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

I take care of the Geany packaging in Ubuntu and I have been running a backport of Geany 0.16 for a few monthes without any issues. It would be safer to backport 0.16 than 0.15 because 0.16 solves a bunch of issues.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Ack from ubuntu-backporters for 0.16 then.

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

 * Trying to backport geany...
  - <geany_0.16-0ubuntu4.dsc: downloading from librarian>
  - <geany_0.16-0ubuntu4.diff.gz: downloading from librarian>
  - <geany_0.16.orig.tar.gz: downloading from librarian>
I: Extracting geany_0.16-0ubuntu4.dsc ... done.
I: Building backport of geany-0.16 as 0.16-0ubuntu4~intrepid1 ... done.