FFE for latest upstream couchdb-glib

[Rodrigo Moya]

Because of several API and ABI changes, packaging of the latest couchdb-glib upstream releases has been a bit delayed, and we couldn't get the latest packages uploaded for lucid.

The upstream releases from 0.5.3 (version in karmic and in lucid right now) contain lots of bug fixes for bugs found during karmic deployment and many API changes needed for several things, like:

* acomodate suggestions from GNOME developers after couchdb-glib was proposed for inclusion in GNOME 2.30
* addition of gobject introspection (thus the renaming of the CouchDB* types to Couchdb)
* addition of a few missing bits from the CouchDB REST API

This makes couchdb-glib be ready to be proposed for inclusion into GNOME 2.31/3.0, which will be done soon. Also, now that very few apps (In karmic and lucid only one application makes use of this library, which is evolution-couchdb, for which an updated package will be submitted as soon as the new couchdb-glib package is uploaded to lucid) make use of the old library, it would be a pity to have lucid include the old, unsupported API, since all new apps should be using the 0.6.x series.

So, asking for a feature freeze exception for this package.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I confirmed that only evo-couchdb depends on couchdb-glib in lucid right now. You committed to providing a new evo-couchdb as well, thus approved.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Adding a distro task for evo-couchdb as well.

[Rodrigo Moya (rodrigo-moya)]

Both branches proposed for merging, thanks Martin

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package couchdb-glib - 0.6.1-0ubuntu1

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couchdb-glib (0.6.1-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #524653)
    - Version correctly ABI-breaking lib (Rodrigo Moya)

  [ Ken VanDine ]
  * debian/control
    - added build depends for libgnome-keyring-dev and libdbus-glib-1-dev
    - added depends for libjson-glib-dev to couchdb-glib-dev
    - added a breaks for libcouchdb-glib-1.0-1
 -- Rodrigo Moya <email address hidden> Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:14:13 +0100

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package evolution-couchdb - 0.4.2-0ubuntu3

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evolution-couchdb (0.4.2-0ubuntu3) lucid; urgency=low

  * Depend on newest couchdb-glib
  * Removed upstreamed patch
  * New upstream release (0.4.2): (LP: #524653)
    - Remove deprecated header file (Rodrigo Moya)
  * New upstream release (0.4.1):
    - Depend on couchdb-glib >= 0.6.1 (Rodrigo Moya)
  * New upstream release (0.4.0):
    - Use contacts record API from desktopcouch-glib (Rodrigo Moya)
    - Support categories for contacts (Rodrigo Moya)
    - Translations:
       - hu (Gabor Kelemen)
  * New upstream release (0.3.99):
    - Take into account the query passed to get_contact_list method to make
      searching work (Rodrigo Moya)
    - Update to couchdb-glib 0.5.99 API (Rodrigo Moya)
    - Use desktopcouch-glib instead of getting the port and OAuth credentials
      manually (Rodrigo Moya)
    - Translations:
       - ca (David Planella)
       - nds (Nils-Christoph)
 -- Rodrigo Moya <email address hidden> Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:41:12 +0100