Please backport multisync 0.82-8 to Dapper

[robepisc]

Multisync in Dapper is 0.82-5.2build1.
Fiesty has 0.82-7 and Debian 0.82-8.

Many SonyEricssons (e.g. T630) represent non ASCII characters with UTF-7.
However multisync, untill release 0.82-7, had a bug that didn't allow it to convert from UTF-7 to UTF-8.

In 0.82-7, the Debian maintainer fixed that little bug (debian #274022), making multisync useful for me for the first time.

TIA,
  robepisc

[John Dong (jdong)]

Does not build in either Dapper or Edgy due to dependency changes, but this is a pretty significnat backport, so I'll see what I can do to work around this.

[John Dong (jdong)]

Testing packages for Dapper built from the proposed debdiff available at http://buntudot.org/people/~jdong/backports/dapper/71916/

Please let me know if they work or not.

[John Dong (jdong)]

Testing debs for Edgy available at http://buntudot.org/people/~jdong/backports/edgy/71916/

[John Dong (jdong)]

It would seem like apt needs to do a dist-upgrade to fully upgrade to this testing backport.

IMO this is undesirable behavior for backports, as the dist-upgrade fallback for update-manager is:

(1) nonexistent in Dapper
(2) Intimidating/confusing in Edgy

[robepisc (robepisc)]

Just tried to install your 0.82-7 backport in Dapper.
It can't install libmultisync-plugin-irmc-bluetooth because it depends on the inexistent "bluez-tools" package.
The right package name is "bluez-utils".
Note that this issue also hit Debian (#398308): this is why they released 0.82-8, which fixes this (and only this).

Moreover the palm and syncml plugins are not built anymore in 0.82-7.
This, added to the dist-upgrade issue you mentioned, makes the package, as is, in a bad condition for a backport.

Can't the backport only fix the bug with UTF-7?
The patch is really trivial (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=274022).
Or this would violate the backport policy?

Ciao,
  robepisc

PS: Thanks for your work on this bug!

[John Dong (jdong)]

the patch should be considered for dapper updates

On 11/17/06, robepisc <email address hidden> wrote:
> Just tried to install your 0.82-7 backport in Dapper.
> It can't install libmultisync-plugin-irmc-bluetooth because it depends on
> the inexistent "bluez-tools" package.
> The right package name is "bluez-utils".
> Note that this issue also hit Debian (#398308): this is why they released
> 0.82-8, which fixes this (and only this).
>
> Moreover the palm and syncml plugins are not built anymore in 0.82-7.
> This, added to the dist-upgrade issue you mentioned, makes the package, as
> is, in a bad condition for a backport.
>
> Can't the backport only fix the bug with UTF-7?
> The patch is really trivial (see
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=274022).
> Or this would violate the backport policy?
>
> Ciao,
> robepisc
>
> PS: Thanks for your work on this bug!
>
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> Please backport multisync 0.82-8 to Dapper
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/71916
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[John Dong (jdong)]

Rejected from backports for given reasons

[John Dong (jdong)]

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=274022

Requesting the patch to fix the above bug in -updates for edgy and dapper...

[Marius Mikučionis (mmikucionis)]

I am not sure how and whom you are "requesting the patch" but the patch is attached there...

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/multisync-utf7.patch?bug=274022;msg=15;att=1

[John Dong (jdong)]

i was requesting action from ubuntu devs :)

On 11/23/06, Marius Mikučionis <email address hidden> wrote:
> I am not sure how and whom you are "requesting the patch" but the patch
> is attached there...
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/multisync-
> utf7.patch?bug=274022;msg=15;att=1
>
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> https://launchpad.net/bugs/71916
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[Hew (hew)]

Ubuntu Edgy Eft is no longer supported, so a SRU will not be issued for this release. Marking Edgy as Won't Fix.