Sync arbtt 0.6.2-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

[Micah Gersten]

Please sync arbtt 0.6.2-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

Explanation of FeatureFreeze exception:
As it's Haskell, there's no easy way to tell if there are new features.
No reverse dependencies.
Fixes FTBFS: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/99409818/buildlog_ubuntu-precise-i386.arbtt_0.6.1-2_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz

Changelog entries since current precise version 0.6.1-2:

arbtt (0.6.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release, GHC-7.4.1 compatibility. (Closes: 665240)

 -- Joachim Breitner <email address hidden> Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:30:56 +0200

[Iain Lane (laney)]

"As it's Haskell, there's no easy way to tell if there are new features."

I don't believe that. Let's look at the diff:

diff -Nru arbtt-0.6.1/arbtt.cabal arbtt-0.6.2/arbtt.cabal
--- arbtt-0.6.1/arbtt.cabal 2011-06-15 11:19:11.000000000 +0100
+++ arbtt-0.6.2/arbtt.cabal 2012-04-07 15:29:42.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: arbtt
-version: 0.6.1
+version: 0.6.2
 license: GPL
 license-file: LICENSE
 category: Desktop

Bump the version

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
     main-is: capture-main.hs
     hs-source-dirs: src
     build-depends:
- base == 4.*, filepath, directory, mtl, time, utf8-string,
+ base == 4.5.*, filepath, directory, mtl, time, utf8-string,
         bytestring, binary, deepseq
     other-modules:
         Data
@@

use the newer version of the base library which is in GHC 7.4

@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@
         Capture
         TimeLog
         UpgradeLog1
+
+ ghc-options: -rtsopts

     if os(windows)
         extra-libraries: psapi
@@ -75,6 +77,7 @@
         Stats
         Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec.ExprFail
         Text.Regex.PCRE.Light.Text
+ ghc-options: -rtsopts
     if os(windows)
         cpp-options: -DWIN32
     else
@@ -92,6 +95,7 @@
         Data.Binary.StringRef
         CommonStartup
         TimeLog
+ ghc-options: -rtsopts
     if os(windows)
         cpp-options: -DWIN32
     else
@@ -109,6 +113,7 @@
         Data.Binary.StringRef
         CommonStartup
         TimeLog
+ ghc-options: -rtsopts
     if os(windows)
         cpp-options: -DWIN32
     else
@@ -126,6 +131,7 @@
         Data.Binary.StringRef
         CommonStartup
         TimeLog
+ ghc-options: -rtsopts
     if os(windows)
         cpp-options: -DWIN32
     else

These are all in executable(blah) stanzas for the different binaries shipped by arbtt. From

  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.4.1/html/users_guide/runtime-control.html#rts-opts-cmdline

we can see that -rtsopts lets the end user tweak RTS configuration parameters when they run the binaries. Not a new feature.

diff -Nru arbtt-0.6.1/doc/arbtt.xml arbtt-0.6.2/doc/arbtt.xml
--- arbtt-0.6.1/doc/arbtt.xml 2011-06-15 11:19:11.000000000 +0100
+++ arbtt-0.6.2/doc/arbtt.xml 2012-04-07 15:29:42.000000000 +0100
@@ -768,7 +768,7 @@
         </varlistentry>
         <varlistentry>
         <term><option>-r</option> <replaceable>RATE</replaceable></term>
- <term><option>--rate</option> <replaceable>RATE</replaceable></term>
+ <term><option>--sample-rate</option> <replaceable>RATE</replaceable></term>
         <listitem><simpara>sets the sample rate in seconds (default: 60)</simpara></listitem>
         </varlistentry>
         <varlistentry>

This could indicate a new feature, if we could find any other evidence of it in the diff. But we can't, and grepping shows us that this is an operation in arbtt-capture. It's a bug fix to the documentation.

--- arbtt-0.6.1/src/Capture/X11.hs 2011-06-15 11:19:11.000000000 +0100
+++ arbtt-0.6.2/src/Capture/X11.hs 2012-04-07 15:29:41.000000000 +0100
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
 setupCapture = do
         unless compiledWithXScreenSaver $
     ...

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Moving ahead per Laney saying to move along :)

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

This bug was fixed in the package arbtt - 0.6.2-1

---------------
arbtt (0.6.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release, GHC-7.4.1 compatibility. (Closes: 665240)

 -- Joachim Breitner <email address hidden> Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:30:56 +0200

[Joachim Breitner (nomeata)]

I can confirm that there are no new features in this release.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

@Joachim, a NEWS file would be nice :-)