Am Mittwoch, den 17.02.2010, 12:09 +0100 schrieb Julian Andres Klode: > Hi, > > as some of you already know, python-apt received a new > API (sometimes called 0.8 API). We intent to drop the old API > for Squeeze+1, and thus ask you to upgrade your packages to > use the new API. > > Mass bug filing > --------------- > On Friday, I will start reporting bugs on the packages > in the Debian BTS listed below, with a patch if easily > possible. All bugs will include the following information: > > User: de...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: python-apt-0-8-api I already wrote patches for the first 20 packages (about 15 ones today); and 2 packages have no bug report yet but are planned for later (software-properties and update-notifier).
2 packages (reportbug-ng & dblatex) were already fixed and did not get a bug report; 2 packages were fixed in response to the bug report (gnome-codec-install & apt-xapian-index). I have not yet started to look at my own 3 packages, because it's more fun to hack on other people's packages first. And the packages I maintain are all more or less graphical which means that most users won't see the deprecation warnings anyway. You may also want to look at the bug page: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=de...@lists.debian.org;tag=python-apt-0-8-api I CCed debian-release this time, so they know what's going on here; and as this may require some special stuff to get those 30 packages migrated in time; once they all adapted to the new API. As always, please keep at least de...@l.d.o in CC. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1267462909.8822.26.ca...@hp
