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

[Colin Watson]

Thanks for this suggestion!  I think that the easiest way to move this
forward (i.e. the way most likely to be accepted) would be to prepare a
targeted backport of just the bug-fixes, without things like whitespace
changes, translation updates (which would need to go in language packs
for an Ubuntu stable release anyway), etc.  I agree that 2.10.0 doesn't
seem to change much beyond the bug-fixes, but a diff that's absolutely
clearly "bug fixes only" would be easier to get through the stable
release update process.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates for details.

Are you OK with preparing this, or do you need assistance?

** Changed in: system-tools-backends (Ubuntu Lucid)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Backport system-tools-backends 2.10.0 to Lucid
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Status in “system-tools-backends” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
Status in “system-tools-backends” source package in Lucid: Confirmed

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