Feature Freeze Exception for Lifeograph 0.8.0

[Paolo Rotolo]

The current version of Lifeograph in Precise Pangolin repositories is 0.7.4 which is an unstable version. A new stable version, 0.8.0 was released. Being a LTS release, I think, 12.04 should definitely come with this new version.

Upstream changelog says:

    * Improved and fixed entry text parser
    * Visually improved some of the icons
    * Fixed compilation problems on relatively older systems
    * Fixed numerous bugs
    * Updated existing translations

I have uploaded the new package on Deb-o-matic:
http://debomatic64.debian.net/unstable/pool/lifeograph_0.8.0-1/

Thanks!

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Are there any new features or is it just bug fixes?

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

Note that there is already an update request in bug #932319 filed by the upstream developer.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

This is what I could find:

+0.8.0 - 2012/02/13
+
+ * Improved and fixed entry text parser
+ * Visually improved some of the icons
+ * Fixed compilation problems on relatively older systems
+ * Fixed numerous bugs
+ * Updated existing translations
+
+
+================================================================================
+
+
+0.7.5 - 2012/01/28
+
+ * Added printing support
+ * Added the ability to add comments to text which can be hidden when not
+ needed
+ * Added the ability to mark paragraphs for being ignored by the parser
+ to be able to use markup chars such as *, =, or _ freely
+ * Implemented filtering enties by date range
+ * Added the ability to hide (filter out) individual entries
+ * Added a monthly chart to the diary view
+ * Skip login screen when an unencrypted diary file is passed in
+ commandline
+ * Added a preview widget to the theme view
+ * Added theme importing from other diaries
+ * Removed background picture feature
+ * Implemented exporting diaries partially
+ * Made minor improvements in the GUI
+ * Fixed numerous bugs
+ * Updated existing translations
+ * Re-added a plain makefile as an alternative way of building Lifeograph
+ for the ones who do not like waf
+ * And many more...

[Ahmet Öztürk (dmxe)]

Hello,

Lifeograph uses the same version numbering convension as Gnome: odd minor numbers denote development releases. Thus, as can be seen in the release log above, 0.7.5 has many new features over 0.7.4. But 0.8.0 is mostly a bugfix release and it not only fixes bugs introduced in 0.7.5 but also many older ones. But again several, mostly minor, bugs discovered in 0.8.0, after its inception. So, yesterday new version (0.8.1) was released. This is a pure bug fix release addressing all newly discovered issues. If an exception will be made, 0.8.1 should be considered much more suitable. I hope it is not too late.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Approved as long as we can get it as a sync from Debian and Debian bug #654484 is fixed.

[Ahmet Öztürk (dmxe)]

Thanks to the efforts of Laszlo Boszormenyi, Debian maintainer of Lifeograph, v0.8.1 is landing to Debian repos now:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/lifeograph

And bug #654484 is fixed:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654484

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

This bug was fixed in the package lifeograph - 0.8.1.dfsg-1
Sponsored for Paolo Rotolo (paolorotolo)

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lifeograph (0.8.1.dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New major upstream release, waf is removed as it's not needed anymore
    (closes: #654484).

 -- Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <email address hidden> Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:24:39 +0000

[Ahmet Öztürk (dmxe)]

Thank you, Scott and everybody.