[Bug 616682] Re: Backport system-tools-backends 2.10.0 to Lucid

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

No, I don't think it is. ;-) As long as the right number is listed...

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Title:
  Backport system-tools-backends 2.10.0 to Lucid

Status in “system-tools-backends” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “system-tools-backends” source package in Lucid:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: system-tools-backends

Lucid ships with system-tools-backends 2.9.4-0ubuntu1, which is an upstream development version considered as unstable, and which suffers form several serious bugs. Maverick now has 2.10.0 synced from Debian, with very limited changes (bugfixes only). It fixes bug 534154, bug 533870, bug 542183, and bug 546873.

Summary of the bugs:
Bug 534154: crash on amd64
Bug 533870: another crash on amd6' preventing from editing user's own Real name
Bug 542183: changing UID doesn't work
Bug 546873: very long delays with no feedback when applying changes

Attached is the diff between Lucid and Maverick versions.

Changelog (see bug 613362):

system-tools-backends (2.10.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Break g-s-t and liboobs < 2.30 since the protocol has changed.

system-tools-backends (2.10.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * debian/control.in:
    - Bump libpolkit-gobject-1-dev build-depend to 0.94.
    - Standards-Version is 3.8.4, no changes needed.
  * debian/patches/08_use_md5.patch:
    - Removed, dbus method no more returns whether to use md5 or not,
      password is now changed via PAM.
  * Switch to source format 3.0 (quilt).
    - Add debian/source/format.
    - Drop quilt from Build-Depends.
    - Remove /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/patchsys-quilt.mk include.
 -- Christophe Sauthier (huats) <christophe.sauthier at gmail.com> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:53:17 +0200