Hi Dan, 2015-03-14 2:58 GMT+01:00 dan <uep.sn...@gmail.com>: > Is it at all possible for this specific patch to get into Jessie on top of > 3.12? I'm sure you'll agree it's an extremely minor change. > > I think I set the priority too low on this bug, because it seriously impacts > the usability of meld in Jessie. Unfortunately, a lot of real code also > ends up with a mix of tabs and spaces (and for comment-formatting, it isn't > uncommon either.) Most code-bases I work with use 4-space width tabs, this > can make some code unreadable. I would love to release a fully polished Meld in Jessie, but this change can't be made at this time according to the release policy [1].
> > Of course, I can always apply the patch locally, but it seems a shame to > have this feature broken for the many people who will use Jessie. Luckily the version I just uploaded to unstable fixes the bug and you and others can use meld from unstable without updating any other package to unstable. I think this is much better than patching meld for yourself. Cheers, Balint https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System > <ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote: >> >> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report >> which was filed against the meld package: >> >> #780326: meld does not properly handle changing the tab-width property in >> preferences->editor->tab-width >> >> It has been closed by Balint Reczey <bal...@balintreczey.hu>. >> >> Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. >> If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a >> better one in a separate message then please contact Balint Reczey >> <bal...@balintreczey.hu> by >> replying to this email. >> >> >> -- >> 780326: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780326 >> Debian Bug Tracking System >> Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Balint Reczey <bal...@balintreczey.hu> >> To: 780326-cl...@bugs.debian.org >> Cc: >> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 21:49:23 +0000 >> Subject: Bug#780326: fixed in meld 3.12.3-1 >> Source: meld >> Source-Version: 3.12.3-1 >> >> We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of >> meld, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. >> >> A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is >> attached. >> >> Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you >> have further comments please address them to 780...@bugs.debian.org, >> and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. >> >> Debian distribution maintenance software >> pp. >> Balint Reczey <bal...@balintreczey.hu> (supplier of updated meld package) >> >> (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you >> believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive >> administrators by mailing ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org) >> >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Format: 1.8 >> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 18:45:16 +0100 >> Source: meld >> Binary: meld >> Architecture: source all >> Version: 3.12.3-1 >> Distribution: unstable >> Urgency: medium >> Maintainer: Balint Reczey <bal...@balintreczey.hu> >> Changed-By: Balint Reczey <bal...@balintreczey.hu> >> Description: >> meld - graphical tool to diff and merge files >> Closes: 773839 780326 >> Changes: >> meld (3.12.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium >> . >> * New upstream release 3.12.2 >> - Fixes: >> * Fix display of change action buttons and line numbers when line >> numbers are shown (Kai Willadsen) >> * Fix positioning of the change action buttons (Kai Willadsen) >> * Fix tab width setting not working correctly (Kai Willadsen) >> (Closes: #780326) >> * Fix starting comparison of Subversion checkouts from a >> subdirector >> (Kai Willadsen) >> * Fix starting Meld from a differently-named symlink (Kai >> Willadsen) >> * Ignore errors when copying file metadata if the destination file >> system doesn't support it (Kai Willadsen) >> * Automatically recompile stale in-place gschemas (Kai Willadsen) >> * Handle SIGINT to support previous quit-on-Ctrl-C behaviour >> (Kai Willadsen) >> - Translation updates >> * New upstream release 3.12.3 >> - Fixes: >> * Fix inconsistent file chooser when cancelling file selection >> (Kai Willadsen) (Closes: #773839) >> * UTF-8 encode patches created from the patch dialog (Kai >> Willadsen) >> * Fix text-wrapping reset caused by the commit dialog (Kai >> Willadsen) >> * Fix text background display on certain themes (Kai Willadsen) >> * Fix for launching Meld with certain Git environment variables >> (Kai Willadsen) >> - Translation updates >> * drop obsoleted patches >> Checksums-Sha1: >> 1ae6957a11287fbcd6cde8808c9922eac8e01cff 2024 meld_3.12.3-1.dsc >> 01d742bf5a12879bc1591110f3ee90496195b76b 462856 meld_3.12.3.orig.tar.xz >> ce79486b40510deace22a0630909bc696c18cf63 10128 >> meld_3.12.3-1.debian.tar.xz >> bf0486ba8808c8537dadfa30590b21c34f3f40bd 421318 meld_3.12.3-1_all.deb >> Checksums-Sha256: >> c8720e15d53e9d18823c0d0fe6bdd5be6531708a95848d21523bbcef89e3e67b 2024 >> meld_3.12.3-1.dsc >> db3572c5c6905b09f4fc28415a7f6f223014391492dd2165ed1bc8512ac4e6fd 462856 >> meld_3.12.3.orig.tar.xz >> 1a325428c780a1906e7455a8adc207775b78509a33aec1428b912f04873aa2be 10128 >> meld_3.12.3-1.debian.tar.xz >> 583a65cb241c15710ecc7d494427f2977806eab1e3a137bb118a00521b243901 421318 >> meld_3.12.3-1_all.deb >> Files: >> 12b0f3e25f7d68cf5f6df55843fc91aa 2024 gnome optional meld_3.12.3-1.dsc >> 4cb8cf5d1f07b4350d253f325b9c9c20 462856 gnome optional >> meld_3.12.3.orig.tar.xz >> 0b23f5e02377d47ee7c652d9b37f6c0b 10128 gnome optional >> meld_3.12.3-1.debian.tar.xz >> 8f0136798ec035b0e66c3797f49c77b0 421318 gnome optional >> meld_3.12.3-1_all.deb >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1 >> >> iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVA1k1AAoJEPZk0la0aRp9kukQAIQHQRGhnr1XgxsCPRuAXiti >> 37es7AyfxyL2Qu8f9q2/DEkcSW+mQ5pmC+n9IQPHz3cBBDLScIas7lY56E5nINwA >> QDTdoLp0MsoSHVjnQXRbaUij62niX80k+pV2wAY6s5WlKf+gQm1czbFMSVJmM7bI >> tgNhOpU05kZgYDUesFldOTvVvM3N7P0Zekll5sisRj4/o5xQAwpOjkuQsvGmmnzM >> T0hPD1n5gPYW6/EwOzLPTWJDrP0Aq88Y12oCzRvfNSJXEj2xx/X7SZaTZPNgKRnL >> nzPeYeGIMvHFQOGJenoLNoghBUggDgtIJgM1qbVGWdiOla8nrVKHxSWU7Dag2Ag7 >> cdxdcsFvjWSSFVO/bJ5wLxQxgyAzorkVLYrZzwOtHuz94pBAPV/1r41e9OfuuXoC >> RUhWs/xUy6ySzDkLL+koFFzBMpUssuFwDqq66PPzSkTVpJabr1t/GiI5YIm9oDgo >> 0s1uSMIQ6CW6rzAuu2i7uSZoiDTD+n53NjBr0WYv7/JTurrqmsV2WSqQ75s+tnwJ >> Uu6iuEdCYi/84zW25Wv+LnIajZVaYtd9tdZOfvp7jihOpnKeBMxu+jSipM6K9foN >> TEXID7ZyK4NIVQyuukI5DvcmgWtOkZcw4DP4dni/SM3XooNp3DTyaLy70f5NoxWM >> 5rRMXh8tn4lbN0dg7arF >> =wd82 >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Dan M <uep.sn...@gmail.com> >> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org> >> Cc: >> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 02:51:47 -0400 >> Subject: meld does not properly handle changing the tab-width property in >> preferences->editor->tab-width >> Package: meld >> Version: 3.12.1-2 >> Severity: normal >> Tags: patch >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> The editor windows do not update for changes to the tab-width setting in >> preferences->editor->tab-width. >> >> I was able to find a fix upstream in commit: >> 089b74f6d1eb86fa8f27102bf3cf9f76d2e5c809 sourceview: Fix GtkSourceView tab >> width property binding (bgo#738001) >> >> I'm not sure the proper way to generate patches as I couldn't find >> adequate >> documentation (or help in irc), but I generated a patch file from that git >> commit. >> >> After manually applying the patch, tab-width works as expected. >> >> >> >> >> -- System Information: >> Debian Release: 8.0 >> APT prefers testing-updates >> APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') >> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) >> Foreign Architectures: i386 >> >> Kernel: Linux 3.18.5 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) >> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) >> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash >> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) >> >> Versions of packages meld depends on: >> ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.22.0-1 >> ii gir1.2-gtksource-3.0 3.14.1-1 >> ii libcanberra-gtk3-module 0.30-2.1 >> ii libgtk-3-0 3.14.5-1 >> ii libgtksourceview-3.0-1 3.14.1-1 >> ii patch 2.7.1-6 >> ii python 2.7.8-4 >> ii python-gi 3.14.0-1 >> ii python-gi-cairo 3.14.0-1 >> pn python:any <none> >> >> Versions of packages meld recommends: >> ii yelp 3.14.1-1 >> >> meld suggests no packages. >> >> -- no debconf information >> > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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