New 3.6 and 3.8 packages - a note
I've uploaded new Debian packages for the latest 3.6 and 3.8 releases. Normally this isn't worth an email, but in this case it's necessary to be aware that Debian won't automatically upgrade it for you when you ask. New dependencies have been added, and so it is now necessary to do: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade to allow the new things to be included. If you don't know about the packages, have a look here: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_3.8_on_Debian_Squeeze -- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204 GPG: 5957 6D23 8B16 EFAB FEF8 7175 14D3 6485 A99C EB6D
I've uploaded new Debian packages for the latest 3.6 and 3.8 releases.
Thanks Robin. But now another warning: I think that the current 3.8 packages won't work on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (lucid) or Debian 5 (lenny, currently also known as oldstable). They'll install (because most package dependencies have no version requirements), but they will produce errors in circulation (because libdatetime-perl doesn't meet C4::Installer::PerlDependencies). http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8738 has a patch for the most obvious error if anyone needs it, but there might be other similar problems. Time to revisit "[Koha-devel] Officially supported OS versions" perhaps? Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/
On 2012-09-25, at 9:56 PM, MJ Ray wrote:
I've uploaded new Debian packages for the latest 3.6 and 3.8 releases.
Thanks Robin. But now another warning:
I think that the current 3.8 packages won't work on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (lucid) or Debian 5 (lenny, currently also known as oldstable). They'll install (because most package dependencies have no version requirements), but they will produce errors in circulation (because libdatetime-perl doesn't meet C4::Installer::PerlDependencies).
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8738 has a patch for the most obvious error if anyone needs it, but there might be other similar problems.
Time to revisit "[Koha-devel] Officially supported OS versions" perhaps?
afaik, Koha-stable (3.8) should not need any perl module outside of debian stable (excluding bug 8790) am i correct here? http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8780
Op 25-09-12 21:56, MJ Ray schreef:
I think that the current 3.8 packages won't work on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (lucid) or Debian 5 (lenny, currently also known as oldstable).
The packages don't support lenny as far as I'm concerned, so I'm OK with that. 10.04 we should perhaps support, I'm not sure. There is a new LTS out, but it's not all that old yet. However this will be a problem with the git and tarball versions also, although the make process should warn in that case. Solutions I see are: 1. packaging a newer libdatetime-perl - a bit of a bandaid but not without precedent, 2. rolling this patch in to the packaged version - I'm not a huge fan of the codebases diverging like that if I can help it, though it's happened temporarily in the past but only with package related parts, 3. ignore it and revise our supported versions - keeping in mind that it's probably acceptable to have a different, and more limited, set of those versions for packages vs. the tarball distribution. 1 and 2 I can do pretty quickly, 3 can be considered to be done already if it's best :) Of 1 and 2 I lean towards 1. It'll also help people deploying tarball/git versions. Robin.
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