updated package ausweisapp2 needs to be imported to ubuntu

[Christian Ehrhardt]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 10:43 PM Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On 2021-11-13 08:02, ciphertext at gmx.de wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ausweisapp2/+bug/1942649
> > the maintainer of the upstream debian pacakge to ausweisapp2 recommends
> > "to ping the Ubuntu maintainers to import the latest version of the
> > package from Debian", because a major functionality of the package is
> > broken since about april this year but obviously fixed in the newer
> > version of the upstream package.
> >
> > Is this the right address and way to do so?
>
> Yes, it's a proper way to reach out to Ubuntu developers.
>
> However, the latest ausweisapp2 version in Debian has already been
> sync'ed into Ubuntu, and is available in the Ubuntu 21.10 archive as
> well as the archive for the coming 22.04.
>
> It's not in 20.04, though. To get it into 20.04, someone needs to
> propose a stable release update in accordance with the related guidelines:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
>
> Normally a new upstream release is not a proper candidate for a stable
> release update. OTOH, if the current version in focal is non-working,
> there may still be a chance...

Ack to all that Gunnar has said, but I just wanted to let you know that there
also is a snap of ausweisapp2 [1] which helps to have the new version
available on 20.04 and many other places.

But if - due to external changes - the version in 20.04 really became
dysfunctional then the SRU rules would allow it to push a new major version.
The complex tradeoff begins when it has many functions and only one is
inhibited,
but the update might break valid users of other functions.

[1]: https://snapcraft.io/ausweisapp2-ce

> HTH
>
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Christian Ehrhardt
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