FeatureFreeze Exception: virtaal 0.4.0-2

[Walter Leibbrandt]

Binary package hint: virtaal

The new version (0.4.0-2) of Virtaal contains a lot of new features and bug fixes. From the release announcement:
<quote>
Highlighted improvements
========================
 - Terminology help. Many people love the terminology feature of Pootle, but we think Virtaal is even better.
 - Syntax highlighting. See curly quotes, XML tags, etc. highlighted in the editing area.
 - Support for "placeables". Read more here: http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/virtaal/placeables
   Let's just say that Walter put in a lot of sweat for this one.
 - Support for editing inline elements of XLIFF files
 - Improvements to preferences
   - plugins
   - placeables
   - sources of translation memory and terminology
 - Updated translations. Many thanks for contributions to more than 15 languages so far.
 - Improvements for right-to-left languages. Thanks to Khaled Hosny.

There are also other smaller enhancements, such as seeing the source of a translation memory suggestion - probably the most requested feature since the previous release.
</quote>

It was successfully built from the Debian sources (from http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/virtaal) with Karmic pbuilder and installed/tested on a Karmic VM. It depends, however, on the inclusion of version 1.4.0-1 of the Translate Toolkit (see bug 451269 for the relevant FFE request).

Bug 388262 is a request to sync the Debian version and can be closed if this FFE is granted.

ChangeLog since 0.3.1-3:
<quote>
virtaal (0.4.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Recommend python-gtkspell instead of python-gnome2-extras.
    Closes: #541599

 -- Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) <email address hidden> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:38:22 +0200

virtaal (0.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release

 -- Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) <email address hidden> Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:16:09 +0200

virtaal (0.4.0~rc2-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
  * debian/control: move from section python to section devel.

 -- Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) <email address hidden> Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:10:47 +0200

virtaal (0.4.0~rc1-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    + debian/patches/glade_warnings: Removed (not needed anymore).
  * debian/control: Standards-Version bumped to 3.8.2. No changes.
  * debian/rules: Removed dh_desktop, this is now handled with a trigger.
  * debian/rules: Do not check the dependencies at build time. This avoid
    depending on too many python libraries at build time (--nodepcheck added)
  * debian/rules: Remove the generated (binary) MO files in the clean rule to
    allow building twice in a row
  * debian/patches/debian_remove_tests: Do not distribute the test directory.
  * debian/patches/fail_for_missing_dependencies: Fail when the dependencies
    are checked (and some dependencies are missing) during build time, instead
    of just issuing a warning.
  * debian/control: Added dependency: python-simplejson.

 -- Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) <email address hidden> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:59:33 +0200
</quote>

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

What testing on Ubuntu has been done with this new version?

[Walter Leibbrandt (walterl)]

Manual testing have been done on a Karmic VM. Also, seeing as most of the core functionality is provided by the Translate Toolkit, I would mention that its unit tests were also successfully run on the same VM.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Unfortunately we've passed the final freeze deadline for this. It will be automatically sync'ed for Lucid. You can then request a backport to Karmic if you want.

[Walter Leibbrandt (walterl)]

Thank you. I'll make sure to keep track of the sync. :)