Patches to get democracyplayer 0.9.5.1 (mostly) working with feisty

[Daniel T. Chen]

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On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 03:02 -0500, Michael Olson wrote:
> I've attached several patches that get democracyplayer 0.9.5.1 working
> with feisty.  The first is a diff of the debian/ directory in the
> 0.9.2.1-2.1ubuntu1 package and the debian/ directory of my package.
> The rest are patches that were added to debian/patches, and submitted
> upstream to democracyplayer's issue tracker.

Thanks again for looking into these issues! Some comments I have
regarding the patches follow.

>  - You'll need pyrex 0.9.5.1a, since that fixes several python2.5
>    issues.  You'll also need a patch for pyrex (attached to this
>    message as 10_remove_pyerr_warnex.patch, and submitted upstream for
>    analysis), otherwise an "unknown symbol" error will happen at
>    runtime, which would prevent the download tool from working.  This
>    patch is a rather suboptimal solution, and I'm hoping that the
>    pyrex upstream can come up with a better fix.

Currently the main component is in UpstreamVersionFreeze/FeatureFreeze,
so pyrex 0.9.5.1a can't be uploaded to Ubuntu unless there's compelling
evidence (well tested, of course) that 0.9.5.1a doesn't introduce any
regressions in addition to resolving bugs. The procedure for filing an
UVF exception request is documented at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess .

>  - I had to build the package using mozilla-dev rather than
>    firefox-dev, due to a runtime segfault in libgtkmozembed.so
>    (IIRC).  This was before applying the patches, though, so it is
>    possible that the segfault is gone now -- I'm out of time and
>    energy to check that.

Could someone verify that firefox-dev is a sufficient build-dependency?
I've posted the patches that Michael sent me at
http://adhd.irule.net/~crimsun/democracyplayer-feisty-patches/ .

Thanks,
Daniel Chen
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