Webalizer package needs to be updated to current release

I noticed the same, please update.

I have noticed that there are some real improvements in the new version. And the new version is a drop-in replacement of the old one.

New color patch: http://brouits.free.fr/webalizer-usercolor/

See more: ftp://ftp.mrunix.net/pub/webalizer/CHANGES

Please do update this package for Jaunty!

Latest Version: ftp://ftp.mrunix.net/pub/webalizer/webalizer-2.21-02-src.tgz

I have sent an email to the debian mantainer to see if there are plans to include this in experimental or something like that.

In any case it would be worthwhile to help him with the update into debian so we can sync it into Ubuntu instead of importing the update ourselves.

The closest to upstream we work, the better for the whole free software ecosystem.

For information of this package in debian see: http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/webalizer.html

The debian maintainer has replied to me:

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> I was wondering if there are plans to put webalizer in
> experimental or sid.

       Yes. :)

       I'm a little bit behind my schedule but I do plan
to have it uploaded this month.

Kin regards,
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Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
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This mean that the new webalizer has a fair chance of making it into the karmic cycle which is awesome news for us lovers of simple statistics tool :-)

Debian rocks! (and since ubuntu is debian: Ubuntu rocks!)

Great news !

I think that a motu should do the upgrade for Ubuntu and don't wait for the original maintainer. Because the request for upgrading webalizer is 1 year old in Debian

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=491200

In times like this I wish I had the time (or inspiration) to become a MOTU...

I will try to drag attention to this in a planet post soon :-)

Too late for Karmic... have to wait for 6 months more :/

Two years and counting...

The Debian bug, 491200, is now 2.5 years old and also still waiting. The package maintainer on the Debian side said he was way behind due to real life, back on 04 Feb 2009. Nothing in that bug history either in the years since. I think one of us needs to some how step up if there is ever any hope of seeing this updated. On the Debian side, there is even a note that there are IPv6 fixes that have come into product that I am sure some would like to see in Ubuntu.

If anyone can point me toward the resources I need to investigate becoming the package maintainer, I will at least read and investigate. I do appreciate the package in it's current form but some of the new features sound very interesting.

Besides the "Does the bug effect you?" link at the top, does anyone know a way of voting the priority higher on a bug in launchpad or Debian bug tracking?

Stephen

The package has even been removed from Debian Testing O_o

http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/webalizer/news/20110502T163913Z.html