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Until now, we maintained only two versions : the current stable
(6.1) and the current unstable (6.2).<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
This will maintain a certain level of reliability to the packaged
versions without exhausting packagers with a race to the latest
stable...<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
If you had any advice about what is right an wrong about long term
maintenance, please feel free to answer this mail.<br>
<br>
On a shorter term note, the bug submitted by Roberto is now fixed in
the 6.0 branch. I'll tag a version tomorrow.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
David<br>
<br>
Le 30/08/11 12:57, Roberto Di Cosmo a écrit :
<blockquote cite="mid:20110830105732.25927.86291.reportbug@voyager"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">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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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
David Verdin<br>
RENATER<br>
<a href="http://www.cru.fr/infos-pratiques/presentation">Le CRU
est maintenant rattaché à RENATER.</a><br>
<a href="http://www.cru.fr/en/index">CRU is now attached to
RENATER</a><br>
<br>
Requests for Sympa: please use the <a
href="https://sourcesup.cru.fr/tracker/?group_id=23">the Sympa
tracker</a>
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