[FFe] Please sync Bibus 1.4.3.2-1 from Debian unstable

[Wouter Stomp]

Bibus is a bibliographic database which has been developed with OpenOffice.org in mind. It can directly insert citations and format the bibliographic index in an open OpenOffice.org Writer document. The main features are

 * hierarchical organization of the references with user-defined keys
 * designed for multiuser-environments (share databases between users)
 * a search engine supporting live queries
 * on-line PubMed and eTBLAST access
 * import of PubMed (Medline), EndNote/Refer, RIS and BibTeX records.

Bibus will use an SQLite-database by default for storage (via the SQLite3 module available in Python 2.5). But it also supports MySQL-databases. If you want to use a MySQL-database, make sure, that you have the python-mysqldb package installed.

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

 bibus (1.4.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   [ Jan Beyer ]
   * Initial release (Closes: #470887)

   [ Charles Plessy ]
   * Upload for Jan, who did all the work.

 -- Charles Plessy <email address hidden> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:14:38 +0900

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

FFe rationale: There has been a needs-packaging bug for this program for ages and it is a very useful program for students and scientists. It would be really nice to have this in jaunty.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

is this a New package in Ubuntu?

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

I see it is New. This will come into Ubuntu on the first Karmic autosync.
At that point it can be backported and made available to Jaunty users. Nack
from me.

[Iulian Udrea (iulian)]

NACK from me as well.

As you can see, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyReleaseSchedule, Beta Freeze is going to be in effect tomorrow. We should really focus on fixing the remaining bugs. Introducing new packages at this point is a risk and we would like to avoid that.

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

According to the freezeexpection process wiki page, new packages can
be added until beta freeze and as you say this is tomorrow, not now.
So it seems strange that you would set the date even earlier when it
is clearly stated there. Also I don't see how introducing a new
package is a risk. No other package depends on it so it can't break
anything. I tested the package from debian and it works perfectly on
jaunty. And it is already packaged in debian so virtually no effort at
all is needed to add this program to Ubuntu.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Only in exceptional cases are new packages added past Feature Freeze. The
primary reason for this is that the archive administrators, who have to do
manual reviews of both source and binary for new packages are fully
occupied with other tasks at this stage of release preparations.

I think you may have been misreading the milestones (or we need to work on
clarifying the wording) as Feature Freeze is the normal deadline.

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

Ok, thanks for the explanation.