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Please package the system-tools-backends 2.8.1

Bug #416321 reported by Milan Bouchet-Valat
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Binary package hint: system-tools-backends

I'm the new maintainer of the system-tools-backends and of the gnome-system-tools. We've just released the system-tools-backends 2.8.1, which now relies on PolicyKit1 (will be the new standard in GNOME 2.28). This version is required for the gnome-system-tools 2.27.3 to work (and build), since they now use PolicyKit1 too. Packaging the stable 2.28 release will thus require it.

Debian itself hasn't packaged PolicyKit1 (which is 0.92 in Karmic ATM), so they are not going to package the system-tools-backends 2.8.1 before some time. So I guess Ubuntu will have to do this directly. That should not be too hard given that changes are mostly translation updates and bug fixes, with some patches that I upstreamed.

Getting this done relatively soon would allow people to test the port to PolicyKit1 and possibly report bugs before the release candidate, so that we don't ship something broken (though it was already not perfect before the migration...). I can provide information and help if needed. Thanks!

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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

http://system-tools-backends.freedesktop.org/downloads/2.8/system-tools-backends-2.8.1.tar.gz

Changed in system-tools-backends (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → In Progress
tags: added: desktop-upgrade
Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
Changed in system-tools-backends (Ubuntu):
assignee: Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) → nobody
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package system-tools-backends - 2.8.1-0ubuntu1

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system-tools-backends (2.8.1-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #416321):
    [ 2.6.1 ]
    - Added infrastructure for translations (David Planella) (LP: #207677)
    - Fixed some compiler warnings (Carlos Garnacho)
    [ 2.8.0 ]
    - Port to PolicyKit1. This change breaks compatibility with clients that don't support it, namely the gnome-system-tools < 2.28. (Milan Bouchet-Valat)
    - Fix D-Bus and PolicyKit policy files (Milan Bouchet-Valat, Simon McVittie, Josselin Mouette and Colin Walters)
    - Move the s-t-b executable to sbindir (Vladimir Lettiev)
    - Remove stale PID file when terminating (Chris Coulson) (LP: #298777)
    - Copy timezone to /etc/localtime instead of symlinking. Packaging tools should take care of updating themselves that file when they update the timezone data. (Steve Langasek)
    - Fix Gentoo support in several ways (Jeremy Guitton)
    - Fix translation files being installed with broken name (Götz Waschk)
    - Fix failure in time-admin when looking up "Europe/Helsinki" as time zone value (Michael Terry)
    [ 2.8.1 ]
    - Fix D-Bus activation to point to $(sbindir) (thanks to Götz Waschk)
    - Move $policy_in_files out of the HAVE_POLKIT case (Carlos Garnacho)
  * debian/control.in:
    - Add BZR link
    - Change polkit dependency to polikit-gobject 0.92
  * debian/system-tools-backends.install:
    - Binary moved from /usr/bin to /usr/sbin
    - Updated polkit install dir
  * debian/patches/00git-format-strings.patch:
  * debian/patches/00git-policy-i18n.patch:
  * debian/patches/05_cve_2008_4311.patch:
  * debian/patches/07_dont_symlink_localtime.patch:
  * debian/patches/61_cleanup-pid-file.patch:
    - Applied upstream
  * debian/patches/08_rosetta_translations.patch:
  * debian/patches/99_autoreconf.patch:
    - Removed
  * debian/patches/01_debian_4.0.patch
  * debian/patches/02ubuntu_chmod_network_interfaces_when_using_key.patch
    - Refreshed

 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:50:16 +0200

Changed in system-tools-backends (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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