[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#512371: Please allow biofox 1.1.5-1 in Lenny.

[Charles Plessy]

Dear release team,

bioFOX 1.1.4 was so old that it did not work with Firefox 3. I updated it to
1.1.5 in Sid; we missed this release as Upstream changed the location of its
uploads.

bioFOX is a mozilla extension that contains most of its files in a .jar, so a
debdiff would not be very informative. Nevertheless, Nelson A. de Oliveira
prepared a diff of the chrome directory after the .jar file is unzipped:

http://people.debian.org/~naoliv/misc/debian-med/biofox_diff.txt

And here is the Debian changelog:
 
> Format: 1.8
> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:36:22 +0900
> Source: biofox
> Binary: mozilla-biofox
> Architecture: source all
> Version: 1.1.5-1
> Distribution: unstable
> Urgency: high
> Maintainer: Debian-Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Changed-By: Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org>
> Description: 
>  mozilla-biofox - extension of bioinformatics tools to Iceape and Iceweasel browser
> Closes: 512371
> Changes: 
>  biofox (1.1.5-1) unstable; urgency=high
>  .
>    * New upstream release, compatible with Firefox 3 (Closes: #512371).
>    * Updated debian/watch.
>    * Use Debhelper 7 (idebian/co{ntrol,mpat}.
>    * Depend on ${misc:Depends} (debian/control).
>    * Converted debian/copyright to machine-readable format.
>    * New homepage (debian/control).
>    * Updated to Policy 3.8.0:
>      - added a get-orig-source target to debian/rules.
>      - wrote a README.source file explaining that upstream sources are in Zip
>        format.
>    * The package now uses Upstream's biofox.jar instead of rebuilding it in
>      debian/rules.

Since Upstream's changelog is "Updated links and fixed bugs", since version
1.1.4 is useless in Lenny and since 1.1.5 works well (I tested), I recommend to
update Lenny's package from Sid's one despite the increase of version number.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan