Tuxpaint 0.9.19 with new useful features was released in February - please update packages

Bug #173293 reported by Mantas Kriaučiūnas
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: tuxpaint

Tuxpaint 0.9.19 was released in February 2008 and 0.9.18 was released in November 2007 - please update Ubuntu packages.

Tux Paint 0.9.18 - Update to Children's Art Software Adds Programmable Plug-in Support
(November 21, 2007) New Breed Software is proud to announce the release of version 0.9.18 of Tux Paint, the Open Source drawing program for children.

Tux Paint's new color picker. Over 50,000 colors are now a click away.
Tux Paint 0.9.18's color palette now includes a rainbow-colored button which brings up a color picker. And now, pictures can have any solid-colored background.
Tux Paint's new 'New' dialog, providing background color choices, along with 'Starter' template images.
Drawings can have any background color; 'Starter' templates have been moved from the 'Open' dialog.

"Magic" tools, the special effects in Tux Paint have been moved from the core of Tux Paint into "plug-ins" which are loaded into Tux Paint when it is launched. A programming interface has been developed and documented, allowing anyone to easily write new "Magic" tools for Tux Paint. One goal of this new capability is to turn Tux Paint into a platform for teaching computer graphics programming to novice programmers, such as high school students.
A drawing made using Tux Paint's new 'Light', 'Calligraphy', 'Flowers', 'Ripples' and 'Bubbles' Magic tools.

Writing new "Magic" tools for Tux Paint is now so much easier, a dozen new ones have been added, including a calligraphy brush that changes thickness depending on how fast you stroke, fun tools for adding flowers, foamy bubbles, and water ripples to pictures, a kaleidoscopic paint brush for drawing symmetric artwork, and a drawing tool that colors additively (like beams of light), rather than subtractively (like paint).

The powerful Pango text rendering system is now used on systems that support it, providing vastly improved display of complex languages such as Arabic and Telugu. This version also introduces new translations to Esperanto, Ojibway and Wolof. The latest version adds support for entering text in Thai and Traditional Chinese.

See http://tuxpaint.org/latest/tuxpaint-0.9.18-press-release-en.php3 for full press release.

For a complete list of changes, see the Tux Paint, Tux Paint Config and Tux Paint Stamps change logs:
ftp://ftp.tuxpaint.org/unix/x/tuxpaint/CHANGES.txt
ftp://ftp.tuxpaint.org/unix/x/tuxpaint/config/CHANGES.txt
ftp://ftp.tuxpaint.org/unix/x/tuxpaint/stamps/CHANGES.txt

Tags: gutsy hardy
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Caroline Ford (secretlondon) wrote :

It has a crash bug as well. We will release 0.9.19 very soon. I wouldn't distribute 0.9.18.

Debian haven't packaged 0.9.18 which is why the new release hasn't been synced across. I've packaged the new set of stamps as a PPA as they are fine to distribute.

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Caroline Ford (secretlondon) wrote :

New->Confirmed

Yes 0.9.18 exists, however I don't think we should package it.

Changed in tuxpaint:
status: New → Confirmed
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Caroline Ford (secretlondon) wrote :

There is a fix for one crash bug in CVS, but we still have a bug where it crashes if more than 127 fonts are installed.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1829850&group_id=66938&atid=516295 which is in 0.9.18 but not 0.9.17 (which is currently in Hardy)

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Caroline Ford (secretlondon) wrote :

Unknown ->Wishlist

Changed in tuxpaint:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Caroline Ford (secretlondon) wrote :

There is a new upstream release of 0.9.19CVS which has fixed the kaleidoscope crash bug.

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Caroline Ford (secretlondon) wrote :

The font crashing bug is only a problem if they have tuxpaint-config installed (from universe) and the "use system fonts" option selected which warns them that it can cause instability.

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Caroline Ford (secretlondon) wrote :

0.9.19 has been released upstream.

It is too late for inclusion in Hardy but I would expect it to end up in intrepid.

I have unsupported binaries of 0.9.19 for Hardy in my PPA.

description: updated
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Aaron Pickett (aaron-d-pickett) wrote :

Would it be feasible to package the 0.9.19 binaries in hardy-backports? I'd like the fix for tuxpaint blocking the screen saver and monitor power saving. Should I just install from the PPA instead?

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sancelot (sancelot) wrote :

furthermore, it does not print at all.
After having quick look at postscript generated output, the postscript code is not correct. And some errors may be related to the use in the french language. So, before I submit a bug for this problem please upgrade the package, since it may be corrected in next releases.

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Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote :

Caroline Ford wrote on 2008-03-03:
> 0.9.19 has been released upstream.
> I have unsupported binaries of 0.9.19 for Hardy in my PPA.

Tuxpaint-config package from your PPA doesn't have menu launcher (.desktop file), while tuxpaint 0.9.17 from Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy has this launcher. Please fix this problem. Look at bug #173294 for more info.

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sancelot (sancelot) wrote :

finally a solution for this problem is to add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list :
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/secretlondon/ubuntu hardy main

then reinstall tuxpaint !!

I am sorry, but PPA has non sense in foreign languages like french ....and many people may not understand what was written in previous comments.

PPA : Personal Package Archive ....

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Caroline Ford (secretlondon) wrote :

Intrepid now has tuxpaint 0.9.20.

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Caroline Ford (secretlondon) wrote :

0.9.20 now in the archive. Backporting to hardy is a different issue.

Changed in tuxpaint:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Przemek K. (azrael)
Changed in tuxpaint (Baltix):
status: New → Fix Released
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