Please sync docvert 3.4-6 (universe) from Debian unstable (main).

[François Marier]

Binary package hint: docvert

Please sync docvert 3.4-6 (universe) from Debian unstable (main).

Changelog since current intrepid version 3.4-4:

docvert (3.4-6) unstable; urgency=high

  * docvert-openoffice.org needs to depend on docvert
  * initscript:
    - background the headless OOo process, high urgency (closes: #502322)
    - only keep track (and kill) OOo processes owned by the docvert user
    - fix all variables still referring to the old initscript name

 -- Francois Marier <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:53:57 +1300

docvert (3.4-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Make short descriptions start with a lowercase letter (closes: #489796)
  * Check whether the directory exists in the cron job (closes: #493334)

 -- Francois Marier <email address hidden> Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:29:40 +1200

[François Marier (fmarier)]

(I am the Debian maintainer of this package)

I'd like to request a freeze exception for the docvert source package (which
includes docvert and docvert-openoffice.org).

The latest version in sid (3.4-6) fixes the following serious problems:

  - Debian #502322: initscript hangs the boot process (release-critical)

  - missing dependency of docvert-openoffice.org on docvert (this is
    required and docvert-openoffice.org won't work without it)

  - initscript could kill openoffice processes belonging to other
    users

And it also contains trivial fixes for the following problems:

  - Debian #493334: check that docvert is installed when running the cronjob
  - Debian #489796: capitalization change to the small description
  - initscript was referring to the wrong names in the LSB comments

As it is, the docvert package is severely broken and I would highly recommend that it be synced from unstable.

Francois

[François Marier (fmarier)]

Note that the Debian sources build fine on intrepid.

I've got a package available in my PPA:

  deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/fmarier/ubuntu intrepid main

Francois

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Doesn't need motu-release approval.

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

ACK as 502322 seems fairly important, and nothing else looks invasive.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

[Updating] docvert (3.4-4 [Ubuntu] < 3.4-5 [Debian])
 * Trying to add docvert...
  - <docvert_3.4-5.diff.gz: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
  - <docvert_3.4.orig.tar.gz: already in distro - downloading from librarian>
  - <docvert_3.4-5.dsc: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
I: docvert [universe] -> docvert_3.4-4 [universe].
I: docvert [universe] -> docvert-openoffice.org_3.4-4 [universe].

[François Marier (fmarier)]

3.4-5 was synced from unstable, but the version we need is 3.4-6.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

[Updating] docvert (3.4-5 [Ubuntu] < 3.4-6 [Debian])
 * Trying to add docvert...
  - <docvert_3.4.orig.tar.gz: already in distro - downloading from librarian>
  - <docvert_3.4-6.diff.gz: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
  - <docvert_3.4-6.dsc: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
I: docvert [universe] -> docvert_3.4-5 [universe].
I: docvert [universe] -> docvert-openoffice.org_3.4-5 [universe].