[pkg-fgfs-crew] flightgear 3.4.1

[Saikrishna Arcot]

For Ubuntu, would it be possible to instead not include that patch, but include the other bug and security fix patches? That way, the SONAME bump isn't required.

On Wednesday, April 01, 2015 18:28:51 Rebecca N. Palmer wrote:
> Upstream plan to release 3.4.1 "this week": 
> http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/33683511/
> 
> This will include the #780712 and #780716 security fixes, which need to 
> get into Ubuntu 15.04 (which closes for bug fixes on 16 Apr: 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VividVervet/ReleaseSchedule , 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess#FeatureFreeze_for_bugfix-only_updates 
> ).
> 
> The libsimgear*3.4.0 -> libsimgear*3.4.1 soname bump is real this time, 
> due to efbca9427485c4aa4a38591bfe44c1571cfd82f4.  Ubuntu have previously 
> accepted those under freeze (LP#1425366), but I do not know whether they 
> will do so this late; the alternative is to make our own half-.0-half-.1 
> omitting this fix.
> 
> It does not include the "disable /tmp/*.xml writing" fix for #780867; if 
> you decide to include that as a Debian patch, note that you need to 
> remove it from _both_ flightgear src/Main/util.cxx and flightgear-data 
> Nasal/IOrules.  (3.5 moves all the security into flightgear, but 3.4.1 
> only moves as much as actually needed to be moved.)
> 
> I do not recommend enabling the launcher (as in current Alioth) at this 
> point: upstream intended it to be Mac-only for 3.4 
> (0b79f7a31652284edf0bfb64734bc52b66426b05) and it has multiple issues on 
> Linux, http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/33679374/
> 
> 
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Saikrishna Arcot
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