New upstream stable release (0.8.18.1)

[Julien Lavergne]

Binary package hint: leafpad

There is a new upstream bugfix release available :
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/leafpad/leafpad-0.8.18.1.tar.gz

Changelog :
Fixed action when file name contains colon (John Lindgren, Mikko Viinamaki).
Fixed memory leak on saving file (Dmitry Artamonow).
Fixed caseless search bug (Dmitry Artamonow).
Fixed memory leak on line numbering (Hongwei Xi).
Fixed truncation on saving file (Alex, brian m. carlson).
Added translations: eo, gl.
Updated translations: fi, hu.

[Jonathan Marsden (jmarsden)]

I am tested an updated package for leafpad 0.8.18-1 now in both Oneiric and Debian unstable.

Stay tuned for a debdiff :)

[Jonathan Marsden (jmarsden)]

dget http://crosswire.org/~jmarsden/leafpad_0.8.18.1-1.dsc

should be the location of a Debian package for leafpad 0.8.18.1 that is now lintian-clean.

My debian/changelog excerpt is:

leafpad (0.8.18.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (Closes: #620984) (LP: #750836).
  * debian/control:
    - Add dh-autoreconf and intltool to Build-Depends.
    - Update Standards-Version to 3.9.2 (no changes needed).
    - Add Jonathan Marsden to Uploaders.
  * debian/rules: Rewrote to simplify, and use dh-autoreconf.
  * debian/patches:
    - Remove 20-src--file.c-colon.patch , equivalent fix upstream.
    - Remove 30-utf16.patch, equivalent fix upstream.
    - Remove unused debian-changes-0.8.17-3.patch
    - Add 40-create-POTFILES.skip.patch so test suite can be run.

 -- Jonathan Marsden <email address hidden> Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:29:29 -0700

[Jonathan Marsden (jmarsden)]

Lucid version built in my default ppa ppa:jmarsden

I forgot to upload the natty and oneiric versions to it, uploaded now, will be there when the builders finish their work on them, if anyone wants to try them out.

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Thanks Jonathan, I'll have a look.

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Jonathan, I wonder why you use dh_autoreconf ? Since you don't touch configure.ac or Makefile.am files, it should not be needed.
I pushed the package to lubuntu-staging PPA, let me know if you have any comments on it.

[Jonathan Marsden (jmarsden)]

That was two months ago... I don't remember the reason in detail :)

I think that without it, the upstream-provided configure script (or some other part of the build process) did not work correctly for me in whatever Lubuntu 11.10 Alpha I had at that time, and it looked like the build files had been generated using an earlier autotools version than 11.10 had. So, I guessed that recreating them from the configure.ac/Makefile.am should help, and it did.

If you need me to retest this and provide more detail, let me know.

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Ok thanks :)
If you have time, you can check the leafpad package if it's complete : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-dev/+archive/staging/+packages

[Ilya Barygin (randomaction)]

0.8.18.1 is in Precise.