Bug#720080: hamster-applet: New releases

[Reuben Thomas]

Package: hamster-applet
Version: 2.91.3+git20120514.b9fec3e1-1ubuntu1
Severity: wishlist

Project Hamster has made more recent releases, up to version 1.03 (I
guess this is GNOME-independent version numbering). The date of the
latest release is 13th May 2013, which is much more recent than the
current package (almost exactly a year earlier).

The applet is dead (instead, there’s a shell extension), and the
maintainer is seeking to retire, but will still make sure Hamster will
work, as he’s still using it; from a packaging point of view this
sounds like a good thing, as it’s likely that after transitioning to
the new Hamster there would be a period of calm.

It would be good to see this new version packaged, both to be up to
date and get some bug fixes, and to work better with GNOME 3.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers raring-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'raring-updates'), (500, 'raring-security'), (500, 'raring')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.8.0-26-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages hamster-applet depends on:
ii  gconf2            3.2.6-0ubuntu1
ii  python            2.7.4-0ubuntu1
ii  python-cairo      1.8.8-1ubuntu4
ii  python-dbus       1.1.1-1ubuntu3
ii  python-gconf      2.28.1+dfsg-1build1
ii  python-gnome2     2.28.1+dfsg-1build1
ii  python-gobject-2  2.28.6-11
ii  python-gtk2       2.24.0-3ubuntu1
ii  python-wnck       2.32.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1
ii  python-xdg        0.25-2

Versions of packages hamster-applet recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme   3.6.2-0ubuntu1
ii  hamster-indicator  0.1+037dd2e-0ubuntu2
ii  python-notify      0.1.1-3ubuntu1

Versions of packages hamster-applet suggests:
pn  python-evolution  <none>

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