On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 07:20:03 +1000, Subscriptions wrote: > Just curious why the latest stable version of Amanda isn't working with > the latest Ubuntu LTS and there seem to be no plans to rectify this.
Well, really there are a few separate issues at play. Generally, once Ubuntu releases a particular release with a particular version of a package, that package's version is fixed for the life of that release. So, in this case, since Precise was released with Amanda 3.3.0, that's pretty likely to be the version they'll stick with for the remander of the Precise lifecycle. On the other hand, they do try to fix bugs that are found in the released packages, by applying as-small-as-possible patches to the existing package versions. But there are a lot of packages out there (especially when considering the "universe" packages such as the Amanda ones), so the trick is to make sure the bug in question gets noticed by someone who can actually release a fixed package.... In the case of this Amanda/glib incompatiblity, the situation was complicated by the fact that the error was triggered by a change in a separate package (libglib), and one aspect of the incompatibilty was not visible at build time. So while Ubuntu developers did make the change necessary to get v3.3.0 to build successfully in Precise, they didn't know that the resulting package didn't actually work when installed -- and the bug report warning of the problem didn't get noticed by any developer until a few weeks ago. That said, I see that a patched version of the 3.3.0 package in now available in the precise-proposed repository, waiting for someone to verify that it works. I won't have a chance to do that for a couple days, but if you are interested, it should now be available for you to install and try out. See http://pad.lv/932064 for more info. Nathan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - [email protected] - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239
