[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug#717493: pu: package sympa/6.1.11~dfsg-5.1~deb7u1

[Emmanuel Bouthenot]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 02:24:24PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
[...]

> I'm slightly torn on this one. Whilst the patch seems "obviously
> correct", it's not applied to the package in unstable, which is
> usually a requirement for accepting a patch for stable. There's an
> argument that it's unlikely that anyone will try to update from
> squeeze's sympa to jessie's without having upgraded perl in between,
> but conversely the patch should work fine with the package in
> unstable.
> 
> Are there any plans to apply the patch, or otherwise update the
> package, in unstable?

This fix apply on a Debian patch[1] which has been merged upstream[2] in
sympa 6.1.19 and the fix itself was applied a few commits later[3].

I'm currently working on the packaging of sympa 6.1.20. It should be
ready to be uploaded in unstable within the next few days.


[1] http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/sympa/6.1.11~dfsg-5/1011_fix_sqlite_db_upgrade
[2] https://sourcesup.renater.fr/scm/viewvc.php/branches/sympa-6.1-branch/src/lib/Upgrade.pm?root=sympa&r1=9974&r2=9995
[3] https://sourcesup.renater.fr/scm/viewvc.php/branches/sympa-6.1-branch/src/lib/Upgrade.pm?root=sympa&r1=9996&r2=10003


Regards,

M.

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