Comment 18 for bug 317164

I'm not involved with ubuntu nor canonical.
Because it was meant to be experimental, I used the experimental ppa.
I did not have the time to finish testing it for a stable release, due
to my exams so I started prioritising my patches and ppa packages. I
removed it from my ppa because it was just a quick copy of the old
package source with the new software/upstream release (as far as I can
remember).
Since then I have had exam periods. I would have finished the job if I
had a working i-net connection at home, which I stopped to maintain my
budget.
That's why I said that you (anyone) should become independent.

Now, why did Chris denied it, I don't know. On the other hand it's in
ubuntu 9.10 and that was my personal goal.

Here is what I would do: you (the jaunty lovers) could at least run
9.10 as a live cd, test the new version of glabels there, then poke
Chris and ask him if he would backport (or update) for jaunty, or
explain you how to request a backport.

On 10/19/09, TK <email address hidden> wrote:
>> Well if one of you could become sort of independent...
>
> Here is what I do not understand: You (Savvas Radevic) created a 2.2.5
> package for glabels and I gratefully pulled it from your experimental
> ppa back in May 2009. Why was this not placed in the backports release
> for Jaunty?
>
> What does " Declined for Jaunty by Chris Coulson" mean? Does it mean
> what that despite the developer fixing the defect and a volunteer
> packaging it for release, a Ubuntu team member can arbitrarily refuse to
> release it to the repositories?
>
> It is a disservice to the developer and the Ubuntu users to release a
> known critically defective old version of an application in the
> repository and not replace it with the working version released from the
> developer.
>
> --
> Please upgrade glabels (universe) to 2.2.5 (stable) from upstream
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317164
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