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It took me a while to come back to the Debian bugzilla package, sadly I didn’t have the time in the past months to pay attention to it. Bug reports were coming and coming and it was really necessary to focus on them. As this weekend is a Bug Squashing Party in the Debian community, I thought it was the perfect time to wear my armor, take my sword and go squashing bugs…

I’m now glad to announce that bugzilla 2.20.1-2 will be soon available for your sid box and provides some sweet improvements:

• The old hand-written postinst script that performs database creation has been replaced by a smart call to dbconfig-common’s hook. By the way, congrats go to Sean Finney, dbconfig-common was really easy to integrate and does well what it claims to.
• The checksetup.pl script - that is a critical point in the package installation phase - was fixed (some grave bugs) and was also enhanced in order to work gently with what the user inputed with debconf. I have to submit my patch upstream for that script…
• I also cleaned a bit the package, added some new translated debconf templates.

I think that this package will bring back a good-shaped package in debian and hope that users will agree on that. The BTS will tell us if I’m right.

Anyway, I feel better after this upload.

Bugzilla, Debian