Re: Gtranslator crash in Ubuntu Lucid

[David Planella <david planella googlemail com>]

Hi Ignacio,

Thanks for the quick reply

2010/5/2 Ignacio Casal Quinteiro <nacho resa gmail com>:
> Hi David,
> the version in ubuntu is a bit old. Right now there is the 1.9.10 so
> would be good to request an update.

I know, hence this message. It is not trivial to request and upload
Stable Release Updates, especially by packages not maintained by
Ubuntu developers, and it might take some time, so I thought in the
meantime, having seen that at some point (IIRC) someone involved in
the upstream project had provided a PPA (Personal Package Archive)
with the latest packages, it might be interesting to reactivate those.

I also know it is not your responsibility as upstream developers to
follow what happens in all distributions, I simply thought it might be
worth commenting here, since you might get some bug reports about
this.

> About launchpad and that stuff
> I've no idea how it goes.

No worries, as I say, I just wanted to send a heads up in case someone
here was involved in packaging and had not noticed. I'll go ahead and
ssee if I can request a Stable Release Update.

> I think they take the version from debian
> and that version is already updated.
> Regards.
>

Lenny has 1.1.7, (http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/gtranslator),
whereas Sid has 1.9.9
(http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/gtranslator). The problem was
that in Ubuntu the latest sync from Debian was on 1.9.6, which had
that bug.

Regards,
David.

> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:29 AM, David Planella
> <david planella googlemail com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The latest version of Ubuntu, 10.04 LTS, released last week, ships the
>> 1.9.6 Gtranslator package. As mentioned on this thread [1], that
>> version contains a critical and very easily reproduceable bug whereby
>> on saving a PO file the program crashes.
>>
>> It seems that a new package with a fix missed the upload window for
>> Lucid, so the current situation is that the current Gtranslator
>> package is unusable right now. If there is a newer package available,
>> I'll see if it's possible to request an SRU [2]. In the meantime,
>> though, I think it might be worth creating a PPA with new packages, so
>> to provide users with a new package they could use. I remember there
>> used to be PPAs, but at some point they were no longer available (or
>> at least I can no longer find them).
>>
>> It might be worth taking ownership of the generic project in Launchpad
>> and publish them there [3].
>>
>> Regards,
>> David.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2010-April/003599.html
>> [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
>> [3] https://launchpad.net/gtranslator
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