FeatureFreeze exception
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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qpdf (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I am requesting an exception to the FeatureFreeze for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I would like qpdf 8.0.1 to be synced from debian.
I am the upstream author of qpdf and the debian maintainer. I released 8.0.0 with the explicit goal of beating the 18.04 feature freeze. It was released and uploaded to debian on February 25. Then I realized 8.0.1 a few days later (March 4) with a few very small additional enhancements. I came to learn that 8.0.0 was not synced before the deadline, so I am requesting a freeze exception. You can find 8.0.0 in debian testing and 8.0.1 in unstable. I was planning on releasing 8.0.2 with another one-line change. The changes from 8.0.0 to 8.0.2 are not fixes to bugs in 8.0.0. Both releases include small additional enhancements. For now, I am request sync of 8.0.1, which is the latest version in debian.
The qpdf package has a very strong record of stability. The principle changes in 8.0.0 were source-compatible but non-binary-
The risk to allowing qpdf 8 into 18.04 is minimal as qpdf has a very thorough regression test suite, and all the changes are backward compatible at the source level. The advantages of having qpdf 8 in 18.04 include handling of a wider range of incorrect files for printing and opening the door to a backport of the form handling capabilities in cups-filters should that be desired.
If possible, I would like to request an exception for 8.0.2, which I have not yet released. 8.0.2 includes only one small additional enhancement: better recovery of files that have loops in the cross reference table. Most readers can't handle such files well anyway, but evince can, and this would enable successful printing of such files from evince. It's a one line change + test suite updates. I have not released 8.0.2 but could do so at any time.
Changed in qpdf (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Changed in qpdf (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
I am looking into this exception.
8.0.0 has been synced into bionic already, but it's still stuck in bionic-proposed most probably because of the ABI bump - I suppose we need to rebuild cups-filters- core-drivers from cups-filters as it's still depending on libqpdf18 which might cause these issues. I'll look into that.
Do you have an ETA on when 8.0.2 could happen?