[karmic] New upstream version available

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I took a shot at it, .diff.gz attached.
.orig.tar.gz from http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/53230/alexandria-0.6.4.1.tar.gz

It would be nice if someone could take a look at it. Package can be found in my PPA, and works fine here.

Thank you for the diff and the bug report! We look forwards to your future reports.

Hi Michael,

Thanks for packaging the latest version of Alexandria! Unfortunately I haven't yet found the time to learn how to make a decent package myself.

I've tried to install you package on a machine that has not had Alexandria installed before and there was a problem with the dependencies:

# aptitude install alexandria
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  alexandria
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libruby1.8{a} ruby1.8{a}
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 1470kB/4193kB of archives. After unpacking 11.1MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  alexandria: Depends: libgnome2-ruby (>= 0.12.0) which is a virtual package.
              Depends: libglade2-ruby (>= 0.12.0) which is a virtual package.
              Depends: libgconf2-ruby (>= 0.12.0) which is a virtual package.
              Depends: libgettext-ruby1.8 (>= 1.7.0) which is a virtual package.
              Depends: libhpricot-ruby which is a virtual package.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
alexandria [Not Installed]

Score is -9879

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]

Could you have a look at this?
Thanks!

The dependencies look fine. I guess you do not have the universe component enabled. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu.

Thanks. I did have Universe enabled, so I must have made another mistake. The problem seems to have vanished although I don't know how exactly. But I've been messing with my repotories lately :-).

Please follow the following process:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess#Exceptions%20for%20Universe/Multiverse

The new version is basically a maintenance release to bring all book metadata providers up to date and fix some stability problems.

The updated package was tested thoroughly using two large book libraries without any problems.

The build log can be found here: https://launchpad.net/%7Esuraia/+archive/ppa/+build/914818/+files/buildlog_ubuntu-jaunty-i386.alexandria_0.6.4.1-0ubuntu1~jaunty1_FULLYBUILT.txt.gz (This is just a PPA version of the package above.)

does the current version still work with amazon?

Yes, it does work with Amazon.

If the old version works, can this wait for the next Ubuntu release?

The old versions seems to work (though it did crash randomly while testing it :-)), so I guess this can wait for a bit longer.

Deferring to Karmic per the latest comments. Thanks for your contribution!

Unsubscribing motu-release. If it's important for Jaunty, you can request a backport once it's in Karmic.

Could somebody take a look at this now that karmic is open? Thanks.

Will work on the update.

This bug was fixed in the package alexandria - 0.6.4.1-0ubuntu1

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alexandria (0.6.4.1-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream release: (LP: #346565)
    - Better GUI feedback when adding books by ISBN
    - Removed the obsolete Amazon (ECS) provider and replaced it with the new
      AWS-based Amazon provider
    - Fixed several book providers (DeaStore, Siciliano, AdLibris & WorldCat)
    - Temporarily removed some broken providers
    - Now supports non-CueCat "keyboard wedge" barcode scanners;
      no settings interface yet, but you can run gconf-editor /apps/alexandria
      and set barcode_scanner to KeyboardWedge
    - Better (though not perfect) handling of character encoding
    - Improved stability (fewer crashes)
    - Bug fixes:
      [#19042] Icon view tooltips cause crashes on x86_64 (LP: #218715)
               [Work-around for an issue with ruby-gnome2 (pre 0.17.0)]
      [#20080] Icon view tooltips cause crashes when publisher not defined
      [#23908] Adding manually without ISBN is unstable
      [#10929] Usability: advanced settings checkbox invisible without Ruby/ZOOM
      [#20168] Cannot use non-western characters in Library names
      [#16707] Cancelling image change in book properties not as expected
      [#20201] Cannot export to ONIX or Tellico format
      [#9010] Crashes when cancelling a library import
  * debian/control:
    - bump Depends on ruby-gnome to 0.16
    - add Depends on libhtmlentities-ruby
    - add misc:Depends
  * debian/rules:
    - no longer move debian/tmp to debian/alexandria, that's not needed anymore
    - don't call dh_desktop

 -- Andreas Moog <email address hidden> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:29:43 +0200