FS#12891 - Update abook to its latest development version

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Greg (dolby) - Thursday, 22 January 2009, 18:24 GMT
Last edited by Thayer Williams (thayer) - Sunday, 01 March 2009, 07:50 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Thayer Williams (thayer)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Low
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

As in title. The latest abook development version 0.6pre2 is 2 and a half years old, but project development seems to have stopped.
Theres already a package for it in AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17510
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Closed by  Thayer Williams (thayer)
Sunday, 01 March 2009, 07:50 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by dtw (dibblethewrecker) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 10:26 GMT
Am sure Thayer has a reason for not updating but I leave it to him to comment and close :)
Comment by Thayer Williams (thayer) - Thursday, 19 February 2009, 03:31 GMT
I believe our party line is to include the latest "stable" version, but unless anyone sees a problem with pushing the development version to extra I'm fine with it too.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Thursday, 19 February 2009, 04:17 GMT
Well i dont consider the request that important, according to pkgstats around 250 people have it installed which isnt that much.
I dont currently use it myself, and never have used it extensively, but Debian also has the 0.6pre2 in their experimental branch which i guess under normal circustances doesnt host devel versions either.
I dont know if its gonna break anything for the people using it. The ChangeLog says:
* The four following configuration options have been deprecated and will no longer be accepted by abook:
* emailpos * extra_column * extra_alternative * extrapos
They have been replaced with a single more flexible option: index_format.
http://abook.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/abook/abook/RELEASE_NOTES
Maybe upgrade and if someone complains, revert back :P
I leave totally up to you.
Comment by Thayer Williams (thayer) - Sunday, 01 March 2009, 07:50 GMT
pushed...if anybody encounters issues with the 2006 pre-release, please open a new ticket and I will consider rolling back to the last "stable" release.

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