[Alexandria-list] Alexandria 0.6.3 in Ubuntu Hardy LTS

[Joseph Method]

Lennart really made this happen. I gave up several times, and each
time he pushed the process forward. That bug report is epic :)

Unfortunately, I was so focused on turning out different packages that
I wasn't really testing rigorously. It now looks to me like Alexandria
is basically broken for a new user using the 0.6.3 package on Ubuntu.
I didn't see any problems when I was testing the packages on my
development machine, but now that I install Alexandria on a fresh
install I see:

* Message "Can't load hpricot, hence provider Amazon not available" on startup
* A search for "Basic Works of Aristotle" spins and comes up with two
books without covers
* Adding the first and mousing over causes Alexandria to crash with
iconviews.rb: `label_for_book': undefined method `size' for
nil:NilClass (this is fixed in trunk, I believe)
* Installing the hpricot gem or libhpricot-ruby deb doesn't improve
search results for "Basic Works of Aristotle", and a search for "Harry
Potter" returns mostly French results.

Pretty bad :( My only excuse is that these problems *might* have been
picked up if the packages had been uploaded sooner. The only thing to
do is to release a quick 0.6.4 addressing these problems and get this
into Debian and hardy-backports. Will someone else take the lead in
assuming responsibility for this? I will help with the technical
details of packaging, but obviously I need another pair of eyes on
this.

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 4:32 AM, L.C. Karssen <lennart at karssen.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  I just got an e-mail from the Launchpad Janitor that Alexandria 0.6.3 is
>  now officially in the Universe repository of Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04).
>  This is an important milestone, since the last four Ubuntu releases
>  shipped with 0.6.1 (a.k.a. "The Buggy One" ;-)). And since Ubuntu Hardy
>  is a so called Long Term Support release which will be supported for 5
>  years, it was even more important to get all our fixes and updates
>  approved for this release.
>
>  Many thanks go to Joseph who has made and re-made, and re-made the
>  package until the Ubuntu Masters of the Universe were satisfied. Without
>  him this would not have been possible.
>
>  With only two weeks to go until release this was really a close call and
>  I'm glad we made it! Let's celebrate that this bug
>  (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191905) is now fixed (\me passes beers
>  around).
>
>
>  Lennart.
>
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