[Bug 243514] [NEW] Please backport gnunet* 0.8.0 packages

[Milan]

Public bug reported:

GNUnet is the secured peer-to-peer framework of the GNU project. It has
just released a 0.8.0 version that breaks network protocol compatibility
with 0.7.3, which is packaged in Hardy. Thus, GNUnet in Hardy is almost
useless since less and less peers will be in the old network.

Moreover, in Hardy, gnunet-gtk suffers from the critical bug 217962: it
is completely unusable due to a version mismatch when syncing from
Debian. Beside this, many many major improvements have been done, as
well as bug fixes (see homepage).

GNUnet consists in 3 source packages:
- source package gnunet: gives gnunet (virtual), gnunet-server, gnunet-tools, gnunet-client, gnunet-common, gnunet-fuse (+ -dev and -gdb packages)
- source package gnunet-gtk (depends on gnunet)
- source package gnunet-qt (depends on gnunet)

The gnunet package has entered Intrepid recently from a sync with Debian
(bug 217962). The others are still waiting (for no reason), and can
enter Intrepid as soon as we want them to. Anyway, the gnunet package
should be backported before or at the same time as the others because of
the versioned depends.

External dependencies: gnunet* 0.8.0 requires libmicrohttpd4 (0.3.1)
which is not in Hardy (libmicrohttpd3 is there). This should not be a
real problem since gnunet is the only package using libmicrohttpd, and
.so names are versioned: this is backport bug 240136.


Please just ask for further information, help or testing. Thanks for your work!

** Affects: hardy-backports
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Description changed:

  GNUnet is the secured peer-to-peer framework of the GNU project. It has
  just released a 0.8.0 version that breaks network protocol compatibility
  with 0.7.3, which is packaged in Hardy. Thus, GNUnet in Hardy is almost
  useless since less and less peers will be in the old network.
  
  Moreover, in Hardy, gnunet-gtk suffers from the critical bug 217962: it
  is completely unusable due to a version mismatch when syncing from
  Debian. Beside this, many many major improvements have been done, as
  well as bug fixes (see homepage).
  
  GNUnet consists in 3 source packages:
  - source package gnunet: gives gnunet (virtual), gnunet-server, gnunet-tools, gnunet-client, gnunet-common, gnunet-fuse (+ -dev and -gdb packages)
  - source package gnunet-gtk (depends on gnunet)
  - source package gnunet-qt (depends on gnunet)
  
  The gnunet package has entered Intrepid recently from a sync with Debian
- (bug 243082). The others are still waiting (for no reason), and can
+ (bug 217962). The others are still waiting (for no reason), and can
  enter Intrepid as soon as we want them to. Anyway, the gnunet package
  should be backported before or at the same time as the others because of
  the versioned depends.
  
  External dependencies: gnunet* 0.8.0 requires libmicrohttpd4 (0.3.1)
  which is not in Hardy (libmicrohttpd3 is there). This should not be a
  real problem since gnunet is the only package using libmicrohttpd, and
  .so names are versioned: this is backport bug 240136.
  
  
  Please just ask for further information, help or testing. Thanks for your work!

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Please backport gnunet* 0.8.0 packages
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/243514
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