Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
     Upgrade from buster to bullseye

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
     standard upgrade procedure

   * What was the outcome of this action?
     xfce4-notes no longer available post upgrade.
     Tried manual reinstallation with the following results:

     # apt install xfce4-notes
     Reading package lists... Done
     Building dependency tree... Done
     Reading state information... Done
     Package xfce4-notes is not available, but is referred to by another
package.
     This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
     is only available from another source

     E: Package 'xfce4-notes' has no installation candidate
     #

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
     xfce4-notes still to be installed

Control: retitle -1 please backport to bullseye
Control: severity -1 wishlist

Hi!
A package not making it to the stable release is by no means a RC bug,
merely a statement of the package's quality at a time in the past.
I'm adjusting severity accordingly.

On the other hand, this case (and associated user frustration) can very
well be solved by a backport.  I've checked that it builds for Bullseye
without modifications.

Thus: XFCE guys, please upload to unstable and bullseye-backports!
Thanks for your good work so far.

Meow!

On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 15:50:31 +0200 Adam Borowski wrote:
[...]
 >
 > Thus: XFCE guys, please upload to unstable and bullseye-backports!
 > Thanks for your good work so far.

 >


Can we please get an upload of xfce4-notes-plugin 1.9.0 to unstable? I'm
happy to do a backport to bullseye once it migrates to bookworm.

I realize that 1.9 is a development release, but

a) having something that's a little buggy is better than having nothing,

b) if it's done relatively soon, we can shake out any potential RC bugs
well in advance of the upcoming bookworm freeze (rather than having 2
debian releases in a row missing this package), and

c) despite being released back in Jan 2021, the only fix to git since
then was for a text color change*. There's also a ton of translation
update commits, which tells me that upstream is still doing at least
some work on it. If it were a buggy unusable mess, there would probably
be more fixes by now.

I've built it for myself and am currently running it on bullseye, and so
far it's working fine. Please consider uploading it to sid.

Thanks,

Andres



  *
https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-notes-plugin/-/commit/d545774d9a0eb078edced191823405f0d630549b

BTW, it's probably safe to remove the versioning in the build-deps
(other than debhelper-compat, obviously) for this package. Bullseye
released with libxfce*/libxfconf/xfce4-dev-tools 4.16, which is equal to
or higher than all the build-deps.

Hi Andres, could you poke upstream people so they can do a stable release
then?

Regards,

On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 20:08, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> wrote:



Sure thing.
https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-notes-plugin/-/issues/64#note_50834