New upstream version of system-tools-backends

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Thu Aug 20 07:52:22 UTC 2009


Le jeudi 20 août 2009 à 09:39 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat a écrit : 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm the new maintainer of the system-tools-backends, and I've just
> released 2.8.1. As I see that Debian (and Ubuntu, FWIW) still only has
> version 2.6.0, while 2.6.1 has been available since April, I'm sending
> you this little reminder. ;-)
> 
> Packaging 2.8.1 should not be very hard, mostly bugfixes and a few
> patches that I've upstreamed to drop on your side. I'm particularly
> concerned that this version is packaged because we've switched to
> PolicyKit1 in it, and it is required by the gnome-system-tools 2.27.3,
> released at the same time. In order to get testing and feedback about
> that migration, getting the package in unstable/testing would be very
> nice.

Thanks a lot for the notice. Unfortunately, PolicyKit 1 has not been
packaged into Debian yet, so we will have to wait for it.

BTW, given the change in this requirement, is it still
backwards-compatible with gnome-system-tools 2.22 ?

Cheers,
-- 
 .''`.      Josselin Mouette
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  `-     future understand things”  -- Jörg Schilling
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