[Bug 240325] [NEW] Gnash 0.8.3 (bugfixes, improved performance, etc) released at June 12, please package

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gnash

Gnash 0.8.3 with lots of improvements released at June 12:

Improvements since 0.8.2 release are:
    * Native fullscreen support (from AS) implemented.
    * Long command-line options properly supported.
    * View detailed movie information from GTK gui.
    * Added an option in Preferences to initially display a movie
      as a blank ("Click here to start") screen.
    * Added "dump" GUI to dump a movie to disk.
    * Improved Cairo rendering performance.
    * Fix support for OpenOffice Impress SWF exporter (malformed..)

See the NEWS file for more improvements and
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnash-dev/2008-06/msg00086.html for
release announcement.

You can grab the Gnash sources from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnash/0.8.3,
or from Gnash CVS with the tag "gnash_0_8_3". Binary packages for Debian or RPM based systems will be available from your GNU/Linux distribution. Please report packaging bugs upstream to your distribution.

Debian already has 0.8.3 release candidate packages in experimental
distro, please use Debian packaging work as a base for final 0.8.3
Ubuntu packages. I'm pasting Debian changelog since version 0.8.2
bellow:

gnash (0.8.3~rc2-1) experimental; urgency=low
  [ Miriam Ruiz ]
  * New Upstream Release.
    -  Garbage Collector usage reduced where appropriate.
    - Mouse.hide and Mouse.show implemented in GTK.
    - ActionScript inheritance fixes:
        + super implemented correctly (still not 100% compatible for SWF7)
        + implements / instanceof works correctly now
     - FsCommands quit, fullscreen and showMenu implemented.
    - FsCommand-to-javascript implemented (plugin).
    - Minor ActionScript compatibility fixes: String, XML, toLocaleString,
      int, parseInt. fromCharCode, toString (SWF4) etc.
    - Fixes to arguments class.
    - Native fullscreen support (from AS) implemented.
    - Stage.scaleMode implemented (fixes resizing of various movies).
    - Stage.align implemented.
    - Long command-line options properly supported.
    - Fixes to Date class (platform consistent).
    - Logging uses boost::format.
    - View detailed movie information from GTK gui.
    - Widget to start stopped movies (e.g. when starting in stopped mode)
    - Improved Win32 support: builds using MinGW/MSYS (cross-compile not
      tested yet), and initial implementation of npgnash.dll exists.
    - Sprite handling improved, fixing FlowPlayer and other video SWFs.
    - TextField handling:
        + Fix in device font handling (DefineFontInfo tag)
        + Fix support for DefineFont2 tag (sizes)
        + Improve TextField support for TextFormat use. 
    - Improved Cairo rendering performance.
    - Fix parsing of malformed XML files
    - Fix support for OpenOffice Impress SWF exporter (malformed).
    - Fix loading of text / XML with Byte Order Marks.
    - Minor fix to _x and _y translation.
    - More functions correctly registered as ASnative.
    - System.capabilities information expanded.
    - Jemalloc memory allocator from Mozilla added as an option.
    - Redesigned and implemented AMF0 support, with the beginning of AMF3
      support.
    - Added "dump" GUI to dump video streams to disk.
    - SWF8 line styles support (both from tag and drawing api) 
  * Added new patch to fix minor compilation bug: kde_include_types.patch
  * Removed "DM-Upload-Allowed: yes" from debian/control
  * Added alternative packages with OpenGL as rendering backend:
    gnash-common-opengl
  * Removed bashism in debian/rules (Closes: #484384)

  [ Robert Millan ]
  * Removed debian/patches/rename_sysgnashrc_to_gnashrc.diff (merged).

 -- Miriam Ruiz <little_miry at yahoo.es>  Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:49:19 +0000

gnash (0.8.3~cvs20080510.1114-1) experimental; urgency=low
  [ Miriam Ruiz ]
  * Compare libqt3-mt-dev and libqt3-mt with 3:3.3.8 instead of 3.3.8 to check
    that it's GPLv3 sompatible

  [ Robert Millan ]
  * New upstream snapshot.
    + Remove debian/patches/paused-widget.patch (merged).
    + Replace --with-plugindir with --with-npapi-plugindir and
      --with-kde-pluginprefix.
    + Add libgnashnet to gnash-common.install and shlibs.local.
  * Pass CXXFLAGS to configure script to make DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt
    work.  Thanks Willi Mann <willi at wm1.at>.  (Closes: #471833)
  * Install missing upstream /etc/gnash{,plugin}rc files.
  * Remove gcc-4.3.patch.  It's apparently not needed anymore (Martin
    Michlmayr confirmed it).
  * Use --ignore-missing-info to make dpkg-shlibdeps happy (no big deal
    for a library package that has zero external dependencies).

 -- Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>  Sat, 10 May 2008 13:15:09 +0200

** Affects: gnash (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: gnash (Baltix)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Also affects: gnash (Baltix)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Gnash 0.8.3 (bugfixes, improved performance, etc) released at June 12, please package
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