[sane-devel] Proposed Upgrade (pu) branches on GitLab

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi again devs,

Remember, 2015-09-19 is feature freeze day.  That's only about 90
minutes away from where I'm at, but I hope that we can sneak in last
minute features till the end of that day ;-)

Please take a look at any of the branches I mentioned below.  I also
added a few:

 - pu/scanimage-png-jpeg-v4 adds PNG and JPEG image file format output
   support to scanimage
 - pu/add-hu.po-313073 add Hungarian translations
 - pu/ja.po-fixes-31385 for a few fixes to the Japanese translations
 - pu/man-pages-fixes-314280-314282 fix manual page issues that make it
   next to impossible to cleanly convert these pages to other formats

In terms of new "features", there's

 - pu/scanimage-png-jpeg-v4
 - pu/add-hu.po-313073

that need to be acted on swiftly to make the feature freeze.

The remainder are fixes or enhancements.  Of those, I'd like to see as
many of the must-have, no-brainers and "IMNSHO-hsould-have" branches
below go in Real Soon Now.

Any branches that get merged will be removed from my GitLab clone as
soon I as notice the merge and finish checking it.

@devs (allan, stef, rolf mostly?): Please take a look and merge those
branches you feel comfortable merging.  I may be able to merge branches
myself but (as mentioned) don't feel comfortable doing so yet.  Maybe
*after* the 1.0.25 release.

Olaf Meeuwissen writes:

> Hi devs,
>
> I've been mail bombing the list, going through unassigned open tickets
> and pushing pu/* branches to my clone of sane-backends at GitLab[1].
>
>  [1] https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/branches
>
> There are ten pu/* branches there as of writing and I have another five
> or so in the pipeline.  And I still have about 50 unassigned tickets to
> look at so there's probably more to come ;-)
>
> I would appreciate it if some of you could take a look at these branches
> and merge them to Alioth's master.
>
> There is one must-have: pu/fix-make-dist-targets.  Without it you won't
> be able to roll a tarball.  It also fixes `make distcheck` so you can do
> builds outside of the top-level source directory.
>
> There are two no-brainers: pu/fix-*.  The numbers refer to the associated
> bug reports.  I'll close those after I see the respective merges of these
> branches.
>
> In the "IMNSHO-should-have" category:
>  - pu/epson-epson2-usb-split because the epson backend doesn't claim to
>    support *all* the scanners epson2 does --> @alessandro
>  - pu/magicolor-4690MF-support because it adds support for a new scanner
>    --> @reinhold
>  - pu/protect-niash-option-access-315132 because it fixes a slightly far
>    fetched security issue --> @stef

This last one has been merged (and removed from my clone).

> For MIPS/musl portability, there's:
>  - pu/dont-detach-after-join
>  - pu/fix-musl-inb-outb-detection-on-mips
> and there may be another fix coming for u_char/u_long issues.
>
> Finally, there's:
>  - pu/bit-depth-reporting-fix which fixes a corner case in scanimage's
>    output
>  - pu/install-umax-pp-tools which addresses something Johannes pointed
>    out on the list.
>
> I've tried to attribute all the patches to their respective authors and
> timestamp them to match the first appearance that I am aware of.  While
> waiting for some/most/all of these to get merged, I'm off peering over
> unassigned tickets again.

Hope this helps,
-- 
Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2            FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27
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