Please update to CouchDB 1.5.0

Bug #1254371 reported by Jason Gerard DeRose
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Bug Description

CouchDB 1.5.0 has been released, a fairly minor update:

http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/whatsnew/1.5.html

I see no reason not to have this in Trusty. As CouchDB is now on a fairly aggressive releases schedule, there is a chance that 1.6.0 will be released in time for Trusty, but one step at a time :)

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tags: added: upgrade-software-version
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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Are you in touch with upstream at all? Any chance of some release being tagged as an LTS so it's supportable for more than 1 year?

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Dave Cottlehuber (skunkwerks) wrote :

I'm an upstream committer. I'd *love* to see 1.6 go into Trusty; what would the reqd timeline be?

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Jason Gerard DeRose (jderose) wrote :

Dave,

The feature freeze is February 20th:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseSchedule

So that means in an idea world, there'd be a stable CouchDB 1.6 release at least a week before that. I haven't had time to keep up with the 1.6 plans, but it also depends a bit on how major the changes are in 1.6.

BTW, I have a 1.5 package I've been testing in the Novacut daily PPA, if anyone wants to give it a spin:
https://launchpad.net/~novacut/+archive/daily?field.series_filter=trusty

I'm about ready to propose this branch for merging:
https://code.launchpad.net/~jderose/ubuntu/trusty/couchdb/1.5.0

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Jason Gerard DeRose (jderose) wrote :

Okay, I'm attaching a debdiff ready for review (and will also propose the branch for merging).

Currently CouchDB 1.4.0 wont build on Trusty (same is true with CouchDB 1.5.0 on Trusty). The fix is to add a Build-Depends on `install-info`. Somehow this was getting pulled in on Raring (perhaps because `build-essential` depended on it), but isn't on Trusty.

However, after reviewing the actual content in the `couchdb` info page, I think it's best to neither build nor install this info page as it has the exact same content as the `couchdb` man page.

Here's my current changelog entry:

couchdb (1.5.0-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #1254371)
  * Don't include `couchdb` info page in `couchdb-bin` binary package as it
    provides no meaningful benefit over the `couchdb` man page (note this change
    means we don't need to add a Build-Depends on `install-info` for Trusty)
  * Remove Build-Depends: texlive-latex-base, texlive-latex-recommended,
    texlive-latex-extra, texlive-fonts-recommended, texinfo (as documentation
    thus produced doesn't get included in binary the packages anyway)
  * debian/rules: don't call ./configure with --enable-strictness as we dropped
    Build-Depends on `texlive-*`, `texinfo`, plus didn't add `install-info`

 -- Jason Gerard DeRose <email address hidden> Sat, 30 Nov 2013 13:52:40 -0700

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Jason Gerard DeRose (jderose) wrote :

Oops, updated version of the debdiff to include a typo fix in the debian/changelog

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package couchdb - 1.5.0-0ubuntu1

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couchdb (1.5.0-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #1254371)
  * Don't include `couchdb` info page in `couchdb-bin` binary package as it
    provides no meaningful benefit over the `couchdb` man page (note this change
    means we don't need to add a Build-Depends on `install-info` for Trusty)
  * Remove Build-Depends: texlive-latex-base, texlive-latex-recommended,
    texlive-latex-extra, texlive-fonts-recommended, texinfo (as documentation
    thus produced doesn't get included in the binary packages anyway)
  * debian/rules: don't call ./configure with --enable-strictness as we dropped
    Build-Depends on `texlive-*`, `texinfo`, plus didn't add `install-info`
  * Add Build-Depends: lsb-release (used for [vendor] info in default.ini)
  * debian/rules: insert proper [vendor] info in default.ini (note this should
    be improved once there is a better mechanism upstream)
  * debian/couchdb.upstart: start on filesystem and static-network-up,
    stop on deconfiguring-networking, plus add "author" line
 -- Jason Gerard DeRose <email address hidden> Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:55:05 -0700

Changed in couchdb (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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