Package: moin
Version: 1.2.4-1
Severity: important
(apologies regarding initial submission, apparently the method I used to
edito my true-headers turned the pseudo-headers into part of the real ones.)
Upstream 1.3.2 moin has just entered code freeze today (20 Jan 2005) and
is expected to release soon, almost certainly by end of the weekend.
Note that the tla (GNU ARCH) system can be used for downloading current
sources, sourceforge is eventually updated, but tla's always current.
A contact from the moin dev team has been cc'd, feel free to ask anything
if you need it to ease packaging.
This release should probably satisfy the following posted debian bugs
without special effort:
# 236295: moin: ACLs are no longer working in this version
ACLs system has been improved in 1.3.x anyway
# 285555: moin: xmlrpc no longer works in 1.2.4
Antispam has been merged more completely, is standard support
rather than a patch in 1.3.x - considerable rpc improvements
# 287006: moin: New Version 1.3.1 available
even newer... notes in this bug claim it was due to be posted
within ~week of xmas, ~hr of another respondent. neither sarge
nor unstable appears to contain 1.3.anything.
This debian bug would require mild adjustment of build setup to satisfy
but should be satisfiable:
# 275914: moin: Please include twikidraw
Twikidraw is provided in source form from upstream, and can be
turned into a jar during build. The copyright term is "fully
modifiable, include this text fragment" and the fragment that
specifies is contained in moin's README.
DATA DIRECTORY STRUCTURES HAVE CHANGED FROM 1.2.x ... *however* ...
whatever work you've done on debconf support of the moin 1.2->1.3 transition
script is not wasted because 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 use the same wiki data-directory
structure. And you'll only need mig1 because you don't have beta editions
of 1.3.x. You may want to make sure it addresses the charset issue (used
to be if you wanted an alternate charset instead of 8859-1 you gad to
specify, now utf-8 is normal but, your transition has to say what to switch
from, so if a sysadmin changed it...)
CONFFILES have changed.
Numerous speed and security improvements are present and my 1.2.4 moin is
being overrun by spammers every day, I'm getting very tired of clicking
revert.
Actually, it's getting embarrassing, all my friends know I'm a debian fan;
nor is changing my wiki type an acceptable option, I'm active with theming
the moin software and my wiki contains 'moin' in its name. I'd rather play
by the rules -- hacking in dpkg system notes just so I can dpkg-repack my own
binaries is tiring too :)
* Heather Stern * star@ many places...
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