[Bug 161832] Re: dhelp sync request from Debian unstable to Hardy

[Emmet Hikory]

Sync Request ACK'd

** Changed in: dhelp (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => New

** Changed in: dhelp (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Summary changed:

- dhelp sync request from Debian unstable to Hardy
+ Please sync dhelp 0.5.25 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

** Description changed:

- Hello,
+ Please sync dhelp 0.5.25 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)
  
- I think that dhelp should be synced from Debian unstable because it was
- rewritten in Ruby. The bug that was fixed in Ubuntu's version is also
- fixed in Debian's (stack smash failure, LP #123600 [1]). The
- Maintainer's field should be set to Ubuntu MOTU after the sync.
+ Rationale:
+     New Debian version includes complete rewrite of dhelp_parse rendering Ubuntu patch no longer applicable
+     New Debian version contains many additional bug fixes
+     New Debian version compiles & installs in hardy
  
- [1] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dhelp/+bug/123600
+ Additional Debian changelog:
+ 
+ dhelp (0.5.25) unstable; urgency=low
+ 
+   * Maintainer change.
+   * Rewrite dhelp_parse in Ruby. This fixes some bugs and avoids many problems
+     (Closes: #21678, #268487, #62454, #312950, #442943, #444429, #193428).
+   * This release should be a drop-in replacement for the C version, and still
+     uses the same database and internal format.
+   * It also adds a Ruby library, to allow other developers to write other
+     programs that read and/or update the dhelp databases.
+   * Use "http://localhost" for CGI script URLs (Closes: #114588).
+   * Removed misleading dot from example (Closes: #381804).
+   * Uses sensible-browser instead of having its own configuration system
+     (Closes: #146002, #162518, #381805, #217162, #430590).
+   * Clean up the HTML a bit (Closes: #438973, #134567, #115306).
+   * Remove references to obsolete script dh_dhelp (Closes: #369459).
+   * Raise title limit from 49 to 100 characters (Closes: #102393).
+   * Depend on doc-base, to make sure packages have their documentation
+     available for dhelp (Closes: #314733, #368035).
+   * Wait a couple of seconds before exiting, after a fatal error, to make sure
+     the user can read the error message (Closes: #35097).
+   * Make documentation index files world-readable, regardless of current umask
+     (Closes: #158792, #430474, #430505).
+   * Remove obsolete script dhelp2dwww.pl, and references to it
+     (Closes: #364245).
+   * Remove "dangerous" environment variables from dsearch, to avoid taint
+     problems (Closes: #389944).
+   * Strip blanks from .dhelp field values (Closes: #133218).
+ 
+  -- Esteban Manchado Velázquez <zoso at debian.org>  Sat, 20 Oct 2007
+ 17:35:26 +0200

** Tags added: sync

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Please sync dhelp 0.5.25 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/161832
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