Sync weechat 0.3.0~rc3-1 (universe) from Debian experimental (main)

[Iain Buclaw]

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Please sync weechat 0.3.0~rc3-1 (universe) from Debian experimental (main)

Changelog entries since current karmic version 0.2.6.3-1:

weechat (0.3.0~rc3-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New (major) upstream release.
    - Fix the excessive number of wakeups (Closes: #461945)
  * Remove patches (merged upstream).
  * Update debian/copyright: add new copyright holder.
  * Packaging changes (taking into account future frontends: weechat-gtk,
    weechat-qt, etc.):
      - Drop weechat-common
      - Add weechat-doc (Documentation)
      - Add weechat-core (locales files, essential plugins)
      - Add weechat-dev (plugins development files)
      - Add weechat-dbg (gdb debugging symbols)
  * Switch packaging from cdbs to debhelper 7.
  * Update packages descriptions.
  * Add a lintian-override against manpage line wrapping error.
  * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.3.
  * Add file UPGRADE_0.3 to doc files.
  * Update debian/NEWS about major changes in this release.

 -- Emmanuel Bouthenot <email address hidden> Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:32:01 +0000

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[Nathan Handler (nhandler)]

We are currently in Feature Freeze, so a feature freeze exception (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess) will be needed for this sync. Some things that caught my eye were the fact that this is a major upstream release and that you are requested that we sync from Debian experimental. Is there a reason for doing this at this point in the cycle? Currently, version 0.2.6.1-1 is in both Debian unstable and Ubuntu karmic.

As a Feature Freeze exception is needed before this package can be synced, I am unsubscribing ubuntu-universe-sponsors for the time being.

[Iain Buclaw (iainb)]

I was doing this at David Rubin's request Nathan (I presume he already uses Weechat 0.3 and is exhilarated by it).

I can get back to you once I've updated him of the above.

Thanks
Iain

[John Dong (jdong)]

Now that WeeChat 0.3.0 is final and in Sid, IMO it would be a huge improvement to have over Weechat 0.2.6, especially since the upstream community has largely switched their plugin development effort towards the improved new release.

We should consider treating this as a feature freeze exception.

[Leon (leonbo)]

Weechat 0.3.0 for 10.04 would be great!

[David Rubin (drubin)]

Would be great to see in 10.04. since the config file has changed and is no longer compatible would be nice to have some sort of porting/converter to at least copy over the server/channel config settings.

[Michael Bienia (geser)]

weechat 0.3.0-2 got synced into Ubuntu lucid.