[Bug 1208776] Re: Update to most recent upstream version 1.10.8

[Paul Gevers]

On 29-04-14 18:13, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Paul Gevers <1208776 at bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
>> It would be great if somebody could actually go through the effort of
>> creating a debdiff that we could integrate into the Debian packaging so
>> that we don't need this dance in the future. This should be doable
>> cleanly and if somebody does the work and it seems sane, I will apply it
>> in Debian.
> 
> I would be very happy to forward patches to Debian (in fact, is the
> part I enjoy the most), but I don't think it's applicable here.
> these are the major changes we done:
> 1) change the default feed list, removing debian's and adding ubuntu's feeds
> 2) using libunity to show unread items, etc, see bug #732848
> 3) using libmessaging-menu, in a way that brakes libnotify
> 
> while maybe you can accept 1) (without replacing), the other two
> points are not applicable to debian (at least because there are not
> libunity-dev and libmessaging-menu-dev).
> 
> I want to assure you I'm doing my best to reduce the delta between
> Debian and Ubuntu forwarding patches from the letter to the former.
> Sadly, I don't think it's possible here...

What I meant is that there are ways to make changes such that they only
apply when build by Ubuntu. In that way, the necessary code is in the
Debian package while not APPLIED in Debian. I remember having used this
kind of logic at least in debian/rules file, although you would need to
search around how to do this nicely for patches, as I don't recall how
this was done.

Paul

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Title:
  Update to most recent upstream version 1.10.8

Status in “liferea” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Debian changelog since the last merge:

  liferea (1.10.8-1) unstable; urgency=low

    [ David Michael Smith ]
    * New upstream release [March 2014] (Closes: #742009)
    * Fix a problem related to opening items in an external browser.
      (Closes: #725281)
    * Update watch file, upstream moved from SF to github.
    * debian/rules: Add intltoolize to override_dh_autoreconf to work around
      missing Makefile. See: http://sourceforge.net/p/liferea/bugs/1143/
    * Adopt package (Closes: #738099)

    [ Paul Gevers ]
    * Remove Dmitry Smirnov from uploaders (his own request)
    * Add myself as uploader

   -- Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org>  Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:03:00 +0100

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