Bug#730868: freeciv: New upstream version 2.4.1 available

2014-02-02 Thread Vincent Cheng
Hi Markus, On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 5:19 AM, Markus Koschany a...@gambaru.de wrote: Hi all, I think I have finished version 2.4.1 of freeciv. You can find all changes in Debian's git repository. Please let me know if you would like me to improve something. Otherwise I suggest to test this

Bug#730868: freeciv: New upstream version 2.4.1 available

2014-02-02 Thread Markus Koschany
Hi Vincent, thanks for taking your time to review the package. On 02.02.2014 09:20, Vincent Cheng wrote: [...] Some minor nitpicks (none of which block upload): - since you're building all the client and data binary packages from the same source package, for the client packages, why not just

Bug#730868: freeciv: New upstream version 2.4.1 available

2014-02-02 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 1:22 AM, Markus Koschany a...@gambaru.de wrote: Hi Vincent, thanks for taking your time to review the package. On 02.02.2014 09:20, Vincent Cheng wrote: [...] Some minor nitpicks (none of which block upload): - since you're building all the client and data binary

Bug#730868: freeciv: New upstream version 2.4.1 available

2014-01-30 Thread Markus Koschany
Hi all, I think I have finished version 2.4.1 of freeciv. You can find all changes in Debian's git repository. Please let me know if you would like me to improve something. Otherwise I suggest to test this version a little and then upload it at the weekend, if everything works as intended.

Bug#730868: freeciv: New upstream version 2.4.1 available

2014-01-30 Thread Marko Lindqvist
On 30 January 2014 15:19, Markus Koschany a...@gambaru.de wrote: Does a similar option such as --enable-sys-lua exist for m4? If possible I would like to drop Debian's patch for this issue. No, and such an feature couldn't easily be part of the configure, as those .m4 -files are like part of

Bug#730868: freeciv: New upstream version 2.4.1 available

2014-01-28 Thread Markus Koschany
On 27.01.2014 20:06, Marko Lindqvist wrote: [...] I think 2.4.0-1 takes advantage of our new configure option --enable-sys-lua that makes freeciv to use lua libraries found (and required) in the system instead of using the copy shipped with freeciv itself. This option wasn't used in version

Bug#730868: freeciv: New upstream version 2.4.1 available

2014-01-28 Thread Marko Lindqvist
On 28 January 2014 16:34, Markus Koschany a...@gambaru.de wrote: On 27.01.2014 20:06, Marko Lindqvist wrote: [...] I think 2.4.0-1 takes advantage of our new configure option --enable-sys-lua that makes freeciv to use lua libraries found (and required) in the system instead of using the copy

Bug#730868: freeciv: New upstream version 2.4.1 available

2014-01-27 Thread Markus Koschany
On 26.01.2014 23:31, Vincent Cheng wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Markus Koschany a...@gambaru.de wrote: As soon as Alioth and the git repositories are back online, I can try to package 2.4.1. I hope there aren't too many changes. I can't promise that the new release will be

Bug#730868: freeciv: New upstream version 2.4.1 available

2014-01-27 Thread Marko Lindqvist
On 27 January 2014 20:39, Markus Koschany a...@gambaru.de wrote: One of my biggest concerns is about the embedded lua libraries. Obviously until 2.4.0-1 Debian's lua5.1 system library has been used but the patch for making that happen has been removed with the last upload. What are the

Bug#730868: freeciv: New upstream version 2.4.1 available

2014-01-26 Thread Jacob Nevins
Is there any chance of 2.4.1 being packaged soon? As well as getting the bugfixes into Debian, ideally I'd like to get them into the next Ubuntu, which is a LTS (long term support) release. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseSchedule suggests that the deadline for import from Debian

Bug#730868: freeciv: New upstream version 2.4.1 available

2014-01-26 Thread Markus Koschany
Hello Jacob, the current human maintainers of freeciv are quite inactive/busy these days. You could always try to update the package yourself and ask someone on debian-devel-ga...@lists.debian.org for sponsoring your package. This might often be the quickest way to get an urgent fix into

Bug#730868: freeciv: New upstream version 2.4.1 available

2014-01-26 Thread Jacob Nevins
Markus Koschany writes: the current human maintainers of freeciv are quite inactive/busy these days. You could always try to update the package yourself and ask someone on debian-devel-ga...@lists.debian.org for sponsoring your package. This might often be the quickest way to get an urgent fix

Bug#730868: freeciv: New upstream version 2.4.1 available

2014-01-26 Thread Marko Lindqvist
On 26 January 2014 17:35, Jacob Nevins jacobn+deb...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: Markus Koschany writes: the current human maintainers of freeciv are quite inactive/busy these days. You could always try to update the package yourself and ask someone on debian-devel-ga...@lists.debian.org for

Bug#730868: freeciv: New upstream version 2.4.1 available

2014-01-26 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Markus Koschany a...@gambaru.de wrote: As soon as Alioth and the git repositories are back online, I can try to package 2.4.1. I hope there aren't too many changes. I can't promise that the new release will be uploaded in time before the 6th of February. That

Bug#730868: freeciv: New upstream version 2.4.1 available

2014-01-26 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Marko Lindqvist cazf...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 January 2014 17:35, Jacob Nevins jacobn+deb...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: Markus Koschany writes: the current human maintainers of freeciv are quite inactive/busy these days. You could always try to update the

Bug#730868: freeciv: New upstream version 2.4.1 available

2013-11-30 Thread Jacob Nevins
Package: freeciv Severity: wishlist We (upstream) are keen that 2.4.1 should get into Debian reasonably quickly, since it fixes some notable bugs since the currently packaged 2.4.0. Details of the changes at http://www.freeciv.org/wiki/NEWS-2.4.1. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to