New gaim upstream version - 2.0.0beta4 available in Debian, please sync

Thanks for your interest to Ubuntu. No need to open a bug about new versions that have not been uploaded because edgy is frozen though, that's only giving extra work to the triage or the maintainer of the corresponding package

This is not really a new version per se, but a new release of the same version. It fixes bugs and further brings about the culmination of the goodness that is Gaim 2.0. ;)

As such, shouldn't this be pushed into Edgy, much like something like an upstream update of Xfce (version 4.4 is also yet unreleased) would?

I'd recommend against uploading 2.0.0beta4. There were some regressions in beta4. Some have been fixed, some will be fixed shortly (and then we'll release a beta4.1 or something), and some might take more time to be fixed properly.

thank you for the comment Richard, it happens that new version bring regressions like that, that's why we don't update packages to new version for stable.
Andrew, xfce maintainer may have their rules, an update with upstream code changes and a number update is a new version

On 11/2/06, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:
> Andrew, xfce maintainer may have their rules, an update with upstream code changes and a number update is a new version

Thanks, Seb. I didn't mean to speak out of turn; I suppose I should be clear on these rules before bringing them up. ^_^

Should this bug remain open then?

Le jeudi 02 novembre 2006 à 21:28 +0000, Andrew Conkling a écrit :

> Should this bug remain open then?

that's a request for new version, it can stay open until the
corresponding version is upload to feisty

Richard, what are the regressions? There are a lot of really good bug fixes in beta 4

Well, libnm-glib causing gaim to hang infinitely on startup is a bad regression. This affects Dapper, so it might cause problems for Edgy. They'd have to be careful to disable libnm support until we fix that. There are some more, Sean or Luke would know more. When we get beta5 out shortly, only the libnm problem should be left.

Marking as fix released since we have beta6 in feisty.

I'm cheating a bit by marking this Fix Released for Baltix. It's an Ubuntu derivative, so the only way it would still have something < 2.0.0beta4 is if the project was dead. ;)