[OPEN-ILS-DEV] [PATCH] #525069 ensure correct version of Encode on Etch and Hardy, drop Gutsy

[Dan Scott]

On 25 February 2010 06:34, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The attached patch updates Makefile.install to list libencode-perl as required for Debian Etch and Ubuntu Hardy in order to ensure that the version of Encode > 2.12 on those platforms.  Encode 2.12 has a bug that breaks decoding of UTF-8 strings, resulting in mangling of diacritics during autogen.sh and saving bibliographic records.
>
> This patch also removes Ubuntu Gutsy from the list of supported platforms for two reasons:
>
> * libencode-perl was never backported to Gutsy
> * Gutsy is not LTS and is no longer supported by Ubuntu
>
> Bug-reported-by: George Duimovich, Natural Resource Canada
>
> Recommend backport to rel_1_6_0.

Hi Galen:

I will apply this as soon as I get back from conference-land & have
better connectivity; I saw the patch hit LaunchPad earlier but I've
been dealing with super-flaky wifi.