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After some talks about how we should package Bugzilla latest upstream release with my sponsor, Francesco Paolo Lovergine, we decided to split the packaging in two parts:

We will still provide Bugzilla 2.16 in debian/sid - and will follow up the task of closing Debian specifi bugs - and will upload soon Bugzilla 2.18 in debian/experimental.

The upload to sid of the 2.16.7-3 package has just been done by Francesco (it’s in the incoming pool at the time of this writing), and we might upload soon 2.18-1 to experimental.

On the other hand, I started forwarding bugs to upstream in order to start a collaborative work between Debian and Bugzilla teams.

We then decided, with the Bugzilla developers, to open a meta bug on Bugzilla which will be blocked whenever a Debian bug is forwarded to upstream.

I’m glad to announce here the upcoming arrival of bugzilla 2.18 in Debian sid. This new package is not just another upstream version, it’s also, first of all, a major rewriting of the package structure.

Instead of having a lot of different paths when installing bugzilla, we would now have something like that (which I find clean and easy to remember):

• /usr/share/bugzilla: the root directory.
• /usr/share/bugzilla/web: the webserver’s document root.
• /usr/lib/cgi-bin/bugzilla: the cgi-bin location.

Perl libraries - Bugzilla::* - will be installed in the standard Perl5 independant modules location: /usr/share/perl5/.

I also paid attention to all the whishlist items and realized that all of them were about better Debconf translations. This release will then close a lot of those bugs, which means that Bugzilla will now come with Czech, Catalan, French, German, Japanese, Dutch and Portugues localisations.

Thanks to everyone who submitted comments about the last two preview releases, that was helpful.

As you might know, Bugzilla 2.18 was released a week ago and it was quickly requested to package it for Debian.

After some work, I can now provide a preview package on my repository. It’s a complete rewrite of the package structure; the goal was to provide a Policy clean package and a Bugzilla installation as close as possible to upstream.

I think that there is still some work to do before I ask my sponsor to upload this release but it’s yet usable. Feel free to give it a try if you have the time :

You can use my sources.list entry:

deb http://www.sukria.net/debian ./

Update, 2005/01/22

A new package has been uploaded on my repository, it contains a lot of fixes. As before, feel free to report me bugs either by mail or by using reportbug on #290775.

Update, 2005/01/25

Again, a new preview package is available (2.18-0pre3) and would certainly be the one that will be uploaded. That’s now the time for the last checks before I ask Francesco to upload 2.18-1 to sid…

Get ready Debian, Bugzilla 2.18 is coming