FFe: Please update to gnash 0.8.4 RC (universe) in intrepid

Bug #240325 reported by Mantas Kriaučiūnas
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gnash (Baltix)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
gnash (Debian)
Fix Released
Undecided
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gnash (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Unassigned
Declined for Hardy by Brian Murray
Nominated for Intrepid by Monkeynut

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnash

Gnash 0.8.3 with lots of improvements released at June 12:

Improvements since 0.8.2 release are:
    * Native fullscreen support (from AS) implemented.
    * Long command-line options properly supported.
    * View detailed movie information from GTK gui.
    * Added an option in Preferences to initially display a movie
      as a blank ("Click here to start") screen.
    * Added "dump" GUI to dump a movie to disk.
    * Improved Cairo rendering performance.
    * Fix support for OpenOffice Impress SWF exporter (malformed..)

See the NEWS file for more improvements and http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnash-dev/2008-06/msg00086.html for release announcement.

You can grab the Gnash sources from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnash/0.8.3,
or from Gnash CVS with the tag "gnash_0_8_3". Binary packages for Debian or RPM based systems will be available from your GNU/Linux distribution. Please report packaging bugs upstream to your distribution.

Debian already has 0.8.3 release candidate packages in experimental distro, please use Debian packaging work as a base for final 0.8.3 Ubuntu packages. I'm pasting Debian changelog since version 0.8.2 bellow:

gnash (0.8.3~rc2-1) experimental; urgency=low
  [ Miriam Ruiz ]
  * New Upstream Release.
    - Garbage Collector usage reduced where appropriate.
    - Mouse.hide and Mouse.show implemented in GTK.
    - ActionScript inheritance fixes:
        + super implemented correctly (still not 100% compatible for SWF7)
        + implements / instanceof works correctly now
     - FsCommands quit, fullscreen and showMenu implemented.
    - FsCommand-to-javascript implemented (plugin).
    - Minor ActionScript compatibility fixes: String, XML, toLocaleString,
      int, parseInt. fromCharCode, toString (SWF4) etc.
    - Fixes to arguments class.
    - Native fullscreen support (from AS) implemented.
    - Stage.scaleMode implemented (fixes resizing of various movies).
    - Stage.align implemented.
    - Long command-line options properly supported.
    - Fixes to Date class (platform consistent).
    - Logging uses boost::format.
    - View detailed movie information from GTK gui.
    - Widget to start stopped movies (e.g. when starting in stopped mode)
    - Improved Win32 support: builds using MinGW/MSYS (cross-compile not
      tested yet), and initial implementation of npgnash.dll exists.
    - Sprite handling improved, fixing FlowPlayer and other video SWFs.
    - TextField handling:
        + Fix in device font handling (DefineFontInfo tag)
        + Fix support for DefineFont2 tag (sizes)
        + Improve TextField support for TextFormat use.
    - Improved Cairo rendering performance.
    - Fix parsing of malformed XML files
    - Fix support for OpenOffice Impress SWF exporter (malformed).
    - Fix loading of text / XML with Byte Order Marks.
    - Minor fix to _x and _y translation.
    - More functions correctly registered as ASnative.
    - System.capabilities information expanded.
    - Jemalloc memory allocator from Mozilla added as an option.
    - Redesigned and implemented AMF0 support, with the beginning of AMF3
      support.
    - Added "dump" GUI to dump video streams to disk.
    - SWF8 line styles support (both from tag and drawing api)
  * Added new patch to fix minor compilation bug: kde_include_types.patch
  * Removed "DM-Upload-Allowed: yes" from debian/control
  * Added alternative packages with OpenGL as rendering backend:
    gnash-common-opengl
  * Removed bashism in debian/rules (Closes: #484384)

  [ Robert Millan ]
  * Removed debian/patches/rename_sysgnashrc_to_gnashrc.diff (merged).

 -- Miriam Ruiz <email address hidden> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:49:19 +0000

gnash (0.8.3~cvs20080510.1114-1) experimental; urgency=low
  [ Miriam Ruiz ]
  * Compare libqt3-mt-dev and libqt3-mt with 3:3.3.8 instead of 3.3.8 to check
    that it's GPLv3 sompatible

  [ Robert Millan ]
  * New upstream snapshot.
    + Remove debian/patches/paused-widget.patch (merged).
    + Replace --with-plugindir with --with-npapi-plugindir and
      --with-kde-pluginprefix.
    + Add libgnashnet to gnash-common.install and shlibs.local.
  * Pass CXXFLAGS to configure script to make DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt
    work. Thanks Willi Mann <email address hidden>. (Closes: #471833)
  * Install missing upstream /etc/gnash{,plugin}rc files.
  * Remove gcc-4.3.patch. It's apparently not needed anymore (Martin
    Michlmayr confirmed it).
  * Use --ignore-missing-info to make dpkg-shlibdeps happy (no big deal
    for a library package that has zero external dependencies).

 -- Robert Millan <email address hidden> Sat, 10 May 2008 13:15:09 +0200

Related branches

Ralph Janke (txwikinger)
Changed in gnash:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Dylan Aïssi (daissi)
Changed in gnash:
status: New → Confirmed
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William Grant (wgrant) wrote :

This version is in Debian experimental.

Changed in gnash:
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Dylan Aïssi (daissi) wrote :

 gnash (0.8.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Miriam Ruiz ]
   * New Upstream Release. Improvements since 0.8.2 release are:
     - Native fullscreen support (from AS) implemented.
     - Long command-line options properly supported.
     - View detailed movie information from GTK gui.
     - Added an option in Preferences to initially display a movie
       as a blank ("Click here to start") screen.
     - Added "dump" GUI to dump a movie to disk.
     - Improved Cairo rendering performance.
     - Fix support for OpenOffice Impress SWF exporter (malformed..)
   * Added missing Build-Depends libboost-filesystem-dev (Closes: #480634)
   * Fixed patch do-not-delete-gmo-files
   * Modified README.Debian file
   * Generate man pages while building the package
   * Upgraded Standards-Version to 3.8.0
     - Added patch target to debian/rules

Dylan Aïssi (daissi)
Changed in gnash:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Harrison Neal (hantwister) wrote :

Just a side note: YouTube Videos weren't working for me (using another computer, I noticed how the UI of YouTube's Flash Video Player has changed since Gnash along with screen shots of it working were "released" into Ubuntu; perhaps Gnash had "issues" with the newer Flash UI), however compiling Gnash 0.8.3 has seemingly fixed whatever problem there was.

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Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething) wrote :

gnash 0.8.3-6 is now in Debian unstable:

http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gnash.html

 gnash (0.8.3-6) unstable; urgency=low

   [ Miriam Ruiz ]
   * Include /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory in the package, in case
     it does not exist. Closes: #495333

 -- Miriam Ruiz <email address hidden> Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:49:58 +0200
gnash (0.8.3-5) unstable; urgency=low

   [ Miriam Ruiz ]
   * Reached an agreement between swfdec and gnash maintainers to use
     the alternatives system to handle the installation of multiple swf player
     plugins for mozilla. The common name for the alternatives link and for the
     plugin will be flash-mozilla.so.
   * Added debian/postinst and debian/prerm to handle alternatives
   * Removed direct symbolic links to usr/lib/gnash/libgnashplugin.so in the
     browsers' plugins directories.

 -- Miriam Ruiz <email address hidden> Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:21:46 +0200
gnash (0.8.3-4) unstable; urgency=low

   [ Miriam Ruiz ]
   * Added patch to Remove segfault (Closes: #423865). Thanks to jiiksteri.

 -- Miriam Ruiz <email address hidden> Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:41:10 +0200
gnash (0.8.3-3) experimental; urgency=low

   [ Miriam Ruiz ]
   * Added two binary packages to handle opengl rendering backend
     properly: gnash-opengl and klash-opengl. Closes: #489220

 -- Miriam Ruiz <email address hidden> Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:04:28 +0200
gnash (0.8.3-2) unstable; urgency=low

   [ Robert Millan ]
   * Add debian/patches/disable_fvisibility-inlines-hidden. Fixes build on
     powerpc/etch. Thanks Sylvain Beucler.
   * Only pass --ignore-missing-info to dpkg-shlibdeps when the version
     we're using supports this option.

 -- Miriam Ruiz <email address hidden> Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:33:43 +0200

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Herbert V. Riedel (hvr) wrote :

jfyi, even lenny has already upgraded to 0.8.3 ;-)

http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gnash

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Hew (hew) wrote : Re: Please sync gnash 0.8.3-6 (universe) from Debian testing (main)

Updated bug title to the proper format and subscribed u-u-s. This needs to be looked at for Intrepid.

Changed in gnash:
status: Confirmed → New
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

we have our own packaging branch. we are targetting 0.8.4 for intrepid.

Changed in gnash:
status: New → Invalid
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Herbert V. Riedel (hvr) wrote :

any estimation when 0.8.4 packages might be available via ppa for testing?

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der_vegi (m-may) wrote :

0.8.4? Nice! I could also test ppa packages, if needed.

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Herbert V. Riedel (hvr) wrote :

hrm... why am I starting to get this strange feeling, that intrepid won't ship with anything newer than 0.8.2 at the end of this month? ;-)

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der_vegi (m-may) wrote :

Good news from the gnash-dev mailing list: "We're expecting to do a new release of Gnash within a couple of days"

Alexander Sack (asac)
Changed in gnash:
status: Invalid → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnash - 0.8.4~~bzr9980-0ubuntu1

---------------
gnash (0.8.4~~bzr9980-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * new upstream release 0.8.4 (LP: #240325)
  * ship new lib usr/lib/gnash/libmozsdk.so.* in mozilla-plugin-gnash
    - update debian/mozilla-plugin-gnash.install
  * ship new lib usr/lib/gnash/libgnashnet.so.* in gnash-common
    - update debian/gnash-common.install
  * add basic debian/build_head script to build latest CVS head packages.
    - add debian/build_head
  * new sound architecture requires build depend on libsdl1.2-dev
    - update debian/control
  * head build script now has been completely migrated to bzr (upstream +
    ubuntu)
    - update debian/build_head
  * disable kde gui until klash/qt4 has been fixed; keep kde packages as empty
    packages for now.
    - update debian/rules
    - debian/klash.install
    - debian/klash.links
    - debian/klash.manpages
    - debian/konqueror-plugin-gnash.install
  * drop libkonq5-dev build dependency accordingly
    - update debian/control
  * don't install headers manually anymore. gnash doesnt provide a -dev
    package after all
    - update debian/rules
  * update libs installed in gnash-common; libgnashserver-*.so is not available
    anymore (removed); in turn we add the new libgnashcore-*.so
    - update debian/gnash-common.install
  * use -Os for optimization and properly pass CXXFLAGS=$(CFLAGS) to configure
    - update debian/rules
  * touch firefox .autoreg in postinst of mozilla plugin
    - update debian/mozilla-plugin-gnash.postinst
  * link gnash in ubufox plugins directory for the plugin alternative switcher
    - add debian/mozilla-plugin-gnash.links
  * suggest ubufox accordingly
    - update debian/control
  * add new required build-depends on libgif-dev
    - update debian/control
  * add Xb-Npp-Description and Xb-Npp-File as new plugin database meta data
    - update debian/control

 -- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:29:49 +0200

Changed in gnash:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Herbert V. Riedel (hvr) wrote : Re: [Bug 240325] Re: FFe: Please update to gnash 0.8.4 RC (universe) in intrepid

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 12:40 +0000, Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote:
> This bug was fixed in the package gnash - 0.8.4~~bzr9980-0ubuntu1

...now it just needs to build succesfully (build process dies on linking
libcygnal.a in the testsuite right now)... :)

Dylan Aïssi (daissi)
Changed in gnash:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: Fix Released → Unknown
Changed in gnash:
status: Unknown → New
Dylan Aïssi (daissi)
Changed in gnash:
status: New → Incomplete
Alexander Sack (asac)
Changed in gnash:
status: Incomplete → New
der_vegi (m-may)
Changed in gnash:
importance: Unknown → Undecided
status: New → Fix Released
Dylan Aïssi (daissi)
Changed in gnash (Baltix):
status: New → Invalid
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