[Bug 1186814] Re: [backport request] mtPaint in precise is an outdated version (dev named it alpha status in 2009)

[Logan Rosen]

** No longer affects: mtpaint (Ubuntu)

** Summary changed:

- [backport request] mtPaint in precise is an outdated version (dev named it alpha status in 2009)
+ Please backport mtpaint 3.40-1ubuntu1 (universe) from saucy

** Description changed:

- mtpaint in Precise LTS is still version 3.31 which did get the suffix
- alpha-status from it's dev.
+ Please backport mtpaint 3.40-1ubuntu1 (universe) from saucy to precise.
+ 
+ Reason for the backport:
+ ========================
+ mtpaint in Precise LTS is still version 3.31 which did get the suffix alpha-status from it's dev.
  
  changelog: http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/news.html
  
  changelog in depth: https://github.com/wjaguar/mtPaint/blob/master/NEWS
  
  Version 3.40 offers some exiting changes + it has left the alpha status
  as declared in the changelog (listing all here would presumeably bubble
  up this bugreport innessecarily)
  
  since it is provided within he universe-section we'd like to ask to have
  it backported.
  
  sourcecode:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtpaint/files/mtpaint/3.40/
  
  It is already packaged in higher versions of Ubuntu (12.10, 13.04,
  13.10).
  
  Thanks for helping to make Ubuntu better every day in advance.
+ 
+ Testing:
+ ========
+ Mark off items in the checklist [X] as you test them, but please leave the checklist so that backporters can quickly evaluate the state of testing.
+ 
+ You can test-build the backport in your PPA with backportpackage:
+ $ backportpackage -u ppa:<lp username>/<ppa name> -s saucy -d precise mtpaint
+ 
+ * precise:
+ [ ] Package builds without modification
+ [ ] mtpaint installs cleanly and runs
+ 
+ Reverse dependencies:
+ =====================
+ The following reverse-dependencies need to be tested against the new version of mtpaint. For reverse-build-dependencies (-Indep), please test that the package still builds against the new mtpaint. For reverse-dependencies, please test that the version of the package currently in the release still works with the new mtpaint installed. Reverse- Recommends, Suggests, and Enhances don't need to be tested, and are listed for completeness-sake.
+ 
+ mtpaint
+ -------
+ * lubuntu-desktop
+   [ ] precise (Reverse-Recommends)

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