[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug#639627: sympa: comes from upstream
David Verdin
david.verdin at renater.fr
Mon Sep 5 15:17:42 UTC 2011
Until now, we maintained only two versions : the current stable (6.1)
and the current unstable (6.2).
It appears that packaged versions of the software (as in Debian or
Redhat) are often late for upgrading to the latest stable. Consequently,
bug fixes can't be used in the packaged versions. for example, the bug
you just fixed is applied to the version 6.1 only.
We think it's not the best for users, so we will maintain older branches
(for now, we added 6.0 and 5.4). When packagers will submit bugs in
these versions, we will fix the bug in the packaged version, then
cascading-fix this bug in the most recent versions.
This will maintain a certain level of reliability to the packaged
versions without exhausting packagers with a race to the latest stable...
I'm still not sure about how long we should keep old versions
maintained. Our insterest is that packagers move on to newer versions in
order to speed up the process of making new (and exciting!) features
available. I'm thinking about three years for now (which means three
stable versions). This is based on the Debian model, but without any
further thinking.
If you had any advice about what is right an wrong about long term
maintenance, please feel free to answer this mail.
On a shorter term note, the bug submitted by Roberto is now fixed in the
6.0 branch. I'll tag a version tomorrow.
Regards,
David
Le 30/08/11 12:57, Roberto Di Cosmo a écrit :
> Package: sympa
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
>
> After looking more into the issue, it seems that list_data
> disappears because
> i) the Debian package configure the code without the --expldir option
> _and_ with the fhs option
> ii) in the upstream source, in configure.ac, when choosing fhs, the
> value of expldir does not contain the list_data subdirectory
>
> Hence, it seems that this nees fixing upstream, but I hand in a
> one line patch to allow testing the results (to test, you need
> to configure at least one virtual robot).
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 6.0.1
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (750, 'testing'), (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental'), (500, 'stable-updates')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages sympa depends on:
> ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups
> ii dbconfig-common 1.8.46+squeeze.0 common framework for packaging dat
> ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy
> ii exim4-daemon-light [mai 4.72-6 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
> ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.30-4 Perl module for manipulation of ZI
> ii libc6 2.13-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
> ii libcgi-fast-perl 5.12.4-4 CGI::Fast Perl module
> ii libdbd-mysql-perl 4.019-1 Perl5 database interface to the My
> ii libdbd-pg-perl 2.18.1-1 Perl DBI driver for the PostgreSQL
> ii libdbd-sqlite3-perl 1.33-1 Perl DBI driver with a self-contai
> ii libdbd-sybase-perl 1.00-3+b5 Sybase/MS SQL database driver for
> ii libdbi-perl 1.616-1+b1 Perl Database Interface (DBI)
> ii libfcgi-perl 0.73-1 helper module for FastCGI
> ii libfile-copy-recursive- 0.38-1 Perl extension for recursively cop
> ii libhtml-format-perl 2.04-2 format HTML syntax trees into text
> ii libhtml-stripscripts-pa 1.03-1 module to filter scripts out of HT
> ii libhtml-tree-perl 3.23-2 Perl module to represent and creat
> ii libintl-perl 1.20-1 Uniforum message translations syst
> ii libio-stringy-perl 2.110-4 Perl modules for IO from scalars a
> ii libmailtools-perl 2.06-1 Manipulate email in perl programs
> ii libmime-charset-perl 1.009.1-1 module for MIME character set info
> ii libmime-encwords-perl 1.012.3-1 Perl interface to deal with RFC 20
> ii libmime-lite-html-perl 1.23-1 Transform HTML page into MIME emai
> ii libmime-tools-perl 5.428-1 Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant m
> ii libmsgcat-perl 1.03-5+b1 Locale::Msgcat perl module
> ii libnet-ldap-perl 1:0.4001-2 client interface to LDAP servers
> ii libnet-netmask-perl 1.9015-4 parse, manipulate and lookup IP ne
> ii libregexp-common-perl 2011041701-1 module with common regular express
> ii libtemplate-perl 2.22-0.1+b1 template processing system written
> ii libterm-progressbar-per 2.09-6 Perl module to print a progress ba
> ii libunicode-linebreak-pe 0.0.20110501-1 UAX #14 Unicode Line Breaking Algo
> ii libxml-libxml-perl 1.84+dfsg-1 Perl interface to the libxml2 libr
> ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
> ii mhonarc 2.6.18-1 Mail to HTML converter
> ii perl 5.12.4-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
> ii perl-modules [libcgi-pm 5.12.4-4 Core Perl modules
> ii rsyslog [system-log-dae 4.6.4-2 enhanced multi-threaded syslogd
> ii sqlite3 3.7.7-2 Command line interface for SQLite
>
> Versions of packages sympa recommends:
> ii ca-certificates 20090814+nmu2 Common CA certificates
> ii doc-base 0.10.2 utilities to manage online documen
> ii libapache2-mod-fastcgi 2.4.6-1 Apache 2 FastCGI module for long-r
> ii libcrypt-ciphersaber-per 0.61-4 Perl module implementing CipherSab
> ii libfile-nfslock-perl 1.21-1 perl module to do NFS (or not) loc
> ii libio-socket-ssl-perl 1.33-1+squeeze1 Perl module implementing object or
> ii libmail-dkim-perl 0.39-1 cryptographically identify the sen
> ii libsoap-lite-perl 0.712-2 Perl implementation of a SOAP clie
> ii locales 2.13-10 Embedded GNU C Library: National L
> ii logrotate 3.7.8-6 Log rotation utility
> ii mysql-server-5.1 [mysql- 5.1.49-3 MySQL database server binaries and
>
> Versions of packages sympa suggests:
> pn apache2 | httpd-cgi<none> (no description available)
> pn libapache2-mod-fcgid<none> (no description available)
> pn libauthcas-perl<none> (no description available)
> pn libdbd-oracle-perl<none> (no description available)
> pn libtext-linefold-perl<none> (no description available)
> pn libtext-wrap-perl<none> (no description available)
> ii openssl 0.9.8o-4squeeze1 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a
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