On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 01:59:01PM +0200, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > I would like to call for attention on these bugs:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/frescobaldi/+bug/1993213 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/frescobaldi/+bug/1983579 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/frescobaldi/+bug/1991322 > In a nutshell, the Frescobaldi package (LilyPond music sheet editor) > is completely unusable on Ubuntu Jammy. The fix is to upgrade it to > Frescobaldi 3.2. > I hope it's OK I raise this here. I do this because this issue has a > bad impact on our community, and has received no visible attention > from Ubuntu maintainers since it was first reported 2 months and > a half ago. In a serendipitous coincidence, my son has just started piano lessons and so I find myself using lilypond for the first time in years. I wasn't trying to use frescobaldi - a text editor is enough for me - but it means I am in a position to confirm the bugs in question. On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 06:02:37AM -0700, Simon Chopin wrote: > We usually don't upload new upstream releases to stable series¹, but > rather cherry-pick specific fixes. This is implied by the SRU rules in > the "New upstream microreleases" section. > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates > This is particularly relevant in this case since the 3.2 version seems > to have picked up a whole new dependency which isn't even in the > archive. > The best way to ensure we fix this in Jammy is to point us towards the > specific commit(s) that address the problem at hand, or, even better, > prepare a debdiff with those patches to get the package sponsored. > ¹: Whole new upstream versions can still be backported when going > through the Backports process, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports I am prepared to argue in this case that a full-upstream update in SRU would be appropriate on the grounds that the package is completely unusable and therefore the regression potential is nil, and has a better chance of correctness than cherry-picking individual commits and hoping we've caught all the type errors. This doesn't obviously fix the problem of the missing dependency. I will check with the rest of the SRU team how they would want this handled. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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