Upstream version 0.7.3 available

If possible, I'd like to request an upstream new version exception for this package. The motivation:
* The current version is the same as feisty, despite considerable upstream progress.
* 0.7.0 saw the release of 3d emulation, fixing a large number of bugs in the emulator
* Many speed improvements have been made
* GDB stub code has been added
* Optional openGL output can offload scaling to the video card.
* Translation support now exists

From a support perspective:
* The diff is huge =(
* Upstream has an active bug tracker
* The same package has progressed into Debian testing, with 0 open bugs.

It builds, comes with new features and loads of unspecified bugfixes, and has no dependencies. It runs fine under compiz as well.

For UVFe, confirmed means approved, so setting back to New.

Since siretart set himself as maintainer for this package, I'd like to get his opinion.

For those worried about serious regressions in functionality, it's good to keep in mind that console emulators aren't perfect, especially for a platform as recent as the Nintendo DS. This is probably why there are no bug reports on it in LP -- users have low expectations for what is essentially software in progress. The new version will likely be an overall improvement with a few regressions, but the state of upstream changes to desmune isn't something where upstream is concerned so much about regressions as putting in basic required functionality like emulating the 3d chipset the system has.

I've noticed improvements over what's in feisty, but it's a gargantuan task to keep a list of what works and what doesn't in a given emulator, let alone which version, to say nothing of listing whether there's more fixes than regressions. The nature of fixing emulators is that sometimes fixing a bug exhibited by one test will cause a previously barely passing test to fail. I've noticed a few reports in the desmume forums of commercial games regressions, but the majority of such commercial games already don't play, as do a few homebrew games I tested with (on both versions, noizds failed to run).

This software is very much a work in progress, and I think the recent releases reflect on that.

Ack. I'm good then.

I am too. Setting to Confirmed.

So at this point, should I attach a debdiff, or point at my ppa?

How about both. My ppa is https://launchpad.net/~jldugger/+archive/

Attached is a debdiff.

A note to sponsors: I'm not sure under what conditions ubuntu is added to the version etc, so please do pay close attention to the control file. Those are the only thing's I've touched from debian unstable.

Does the Debian version work unmodified (just rebuilt)? If it does, we can just sync that.

Unsubscribing motu-uvf now that the UVFe is approved.

Yes, I believe a sync suffice. Apologies for not being familiar with the process.