MyPaint package in Lucid

[Stefan Lesicnik]

----- "Jon Nordby" <jononor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I'm one of the developers of MyPaint, a package that is now in
> Universe for Lucid.
> 
> 
> 
> The current version of the package is 0.7.1 and it has a confirmed,
> unsolved bug:
> "MyPaint package 0.7.1-2 for Lucid missing a dependency"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mypaint/+bug/493366
> 
> 
> That bug is solved in the current Debian package, which is also
> updated for the newest major release (0.8):
> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/mypaint
> We've since then released two minor releases to that series, so the
> latest version is 0.8.2. It contains bugfixes and translation
> additions, no major changes.
> 
> 
> I think that it would be very nice, both for end users and for us as
> maintainers, if Ubuntu had MyPaint 0.8..2 when Lucid goes gold. It
> would also allow you to close "Update MyPaint to v0.8.0 in Lucid"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mypaint/+bug/515016
> So dear masters of the universe, can we make that happen? What do you
> want/need me to do?


Hi Jon,

As we are currently in feature freeze [0], to get 0.8.2 into Lucid, you need to follow the Exception Process [1].

[0] - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze
[1] - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess

Find me / anyone on irc  #ubuntu-motu if you need any help or have questions

regards,

Stefan