Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and wxwidgets3.0

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

> Il Giovedì 21 Novembre 2013 12:41, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> ha scritto:
> > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:50:21PM +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
>>  I write here since wxwidgets3.0 has been released days ago, and it has
>>  been packaged and accepted in debian/new and unstable 4 days ago.
>>  http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wxwidgets3.0.html
>> 
>>  Shouldn't it be automatically imported in ubuntu?
> 
> It hasn't been automatically imported because it takes over the
> wx-common binary from wxwidgets2.8, which has Ubuntu-specific
> modifications:
> 
> wxwidgets2.8 (2.8.12.1-14ubuntu2) trusty; urgency=low
> 
>   * disable disable_media_python.patch to add wx.media to python-wxgtk2.8
>     (LP: #1224528)
> 
> -- Fabrice Coutadeur <fabricesp at ubuntu.com>  Fri, 18 Oct 2013 20:29:34 
> +0200
> 
> wxwidgets2.8 (2.8.12.1-14ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low
> 
>   * Merge from Debian unstable, remaining change:
>     - Disable bp-menubar-fix.patch.
>   * All other changes have been applied in Debian.
> 
> -- Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 at ubuntu.com>  Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:32:13 +0400
> 
> This means that a developer needs to resolve this situation manually,
> either by uploading a version of wxwidgets3.0 with the necessary Ubuntu
> changes applied, or by determining that all these changes have been
> merged and performing a manual sync.
> 

I'm since some months a debian maintainer, I would like to join the ubuntu development community, I already filed some merge/sync bugs successfully and I know how to triage and fix bugs.

But sometimes I lack on policies reading :)

Can I help?


G.

> 
>>  Do you have any particular policy about LTS and/or new packages?
> 
> No; new packages that don't have a problem such as the above are
> imported automatically.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com
> ]
>