[731255] synergy: Jessie synergyc (1.4.12-3) cannot connect to Wheezy synergys (1.3.8-2)

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BTS_msg_id: 20131203171101.5077.60137.reportbug@styx.blisses.org BTS author: Mason Loring Bliss mason@blisses.org

Package: synergy Version: 1.4.12-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

In trying to establish a synergy connection that worked prior to one of the involved systems upgrading to Jessie this weekend, I see this error, and am not able to connect:

2013-12-03T11:46:50 WARNING: failed to connect to server: incompatible client 1.3 /tmp/buildd/synergy-1.4.12/src/lib/synergy/CClientApp.cpp,372 2013-12-03T11:46:50 DEBUG: retry in 1 seconds /tmp/buildd/synergy-1.4.12/src/lib/synergy/CClientApp.cpp,344

This completely breaks Synergy on this system.

-- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages synergy depends on: ii libc6 2.17-93 ii libcrypto++9 5.6.1-6 ii libgcc1 1:4.8.2-1 ii libice6 2:1.0.8-2 ii libqt4-network 4:4.8.5+git121-g2a9ea11+dfsg1-2 ii libqtcore4 4:4.8.5+git121-g2a9ea11+dfsg1-2 ii libqtgui4 4:4.8.5+git121-g2a9ea11+dfsg1-2 ii libsm6 2:1.2.1-2 ii libstdc++6 4.8.2-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.2-1 ii libxi6 2:1.7.2-1 ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.3-1 ii libxtst6 2:1.2.2-1

synergy recommends no packages.

synergy suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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BTS_msg_id: 20140331112921.GA18973@sym.noone.org BTS author: Axel Beckert abe@debian.org

Control: tag -1 + confirmed Control: found -1 1.4.16-1 Control: forwarded -1 http://synergy-foss.org/spit/issues/details/3562/

Hi,

I can easily reproduce this issue.

Mason Loring Bliss wrote:

Package: synergy Version: 1.4.12-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable [...] This completely breaks Synergy on this system.

From my point of view it does not render the package generally unusable, just for the case where the server is an significantly older version.

Then again, the case with Jessie and Wheezy is likely no seldom one, so I think if there's a chance to fix this issue, it should be fixed before the freeze for Jessie.

I checked the upstream bug tracker and found only one entry similar to this issue. Unfortunately it was tagged "invalid":

http://synergy-foss.org/spit/issues/details/3562/

    Regards, Axel

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BTS_msg_id: 53397E83.4060008@debian.org BTS author: Jeff Licquia licquia@debian.org

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On 03/31/2014 07:29 AM, Axel Beckert wrote:

From my point of view it does not render the package generally unusable, just for the case where the server is an significantly older version. =20 Then again, the case with Jessie and Wheezy is likely no seldom one, so I think if there's a chance to fix this issue, it should be fixed before the freeze for Jessie. =20 I checked the upstream bug tracker and found only one entry similar to this issue. Unfortunately it was tagged "invalid": =20 http://synergy-foss.org/spit/issues/details/3562/

My plan to "fix" this bug is to make a version of synergy 1.4 available in wheezy-backports.

As another workaround, 1.3 synergyc can talk to 1.4 synergys, but this would require switching the mouse and keyboard to a different system.

I suspect this will become a problem more and more with other distros as well; upstream considers 1.3 to be obsolete, and other distros are updating synergy as well. So, I consider the existence of a backport for wheezy to be the best resolution we can hope for.

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BTS_msg_id: 20140331153602.GW27889@sym.noone.org BTS author: Axel Beckert abe@debian.org

Control: severity -1 important

Hi Jeff,

thanks for the quick feedback!

Jeff Licquia wrote:

On 03/31/2014 07:29 AM, Axel Beckert wrote:

From my point of view it does not render the package generally unusable, just for the case where the server is an significantly older version.

Then again, the case with Jessie and Wheezy is likely no seldom one, so I think if there's a chance to fix this issue, it should be fixed before the freeze for Jessie.

I checked the upstream bug tracker and found only one entry similar to this issue. Unfortunately it was tagged "invalid":

http://synergy-foss.org/spit/issues/details/3562/

My plan to "fix" this bug is to make a version of synergy 1.4 available in wheezy-backports.

Good idea!

I suspect this will become a problem more and more with other distros as well; upstream considers 1.3 to be obsolete, and other distros are updating synergy as well. So, I consider the existence of a backport for wheezy to be the best resolution we can hope for.

Yes, but it's definitely not release-critical if backwards compatibility is a just not supported feature. (Lowering the severity also prevents synergy to be (auto-)removed from testing which would hinder uploading a backport, too.)

    Regards, Axel

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BTS_msg_id: 20140401163913.GO1777@blisses.org BTS author: Mason Loring Bliss mason@blisses.org

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:41:07AM -0400, Jeff Licquia wrote:

My plan to "fix" this bug is to make a version of synergy 1.4 available in wheezy-backports.

That seems reasonable. Upstream has a broken policy in my opinion, and providing a backport seems more sensible than putting in engineering effort towards cross-version compatibility that upstream should have already exerted themselves.

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BTS_msg_id: CANQP10yNE3ga6HZZcvsMZp7gfQCSciuYJrMi3ryLfbh=h8ZP-Q@mail.gmail.com BTS author: Daniel Kurth dankurth@gmail.com

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BTS_msg_id: 1486669108-1655-bts-joshua.honeycutt@gmail.com BTS author: Joshua Honeycutt joshua.honeycutt@gmail.com

close 731255 1.4.16-1~bpo70+1 thanks

I am closing this bug because the jessie synergy package has been backported to wheezy by Pierre Rudloff in August 2014 with version 1.4.16-1~bpo70+1.

I am trying to clean up old bugs for synergy as the new maintainer. If I have made an error in closing this bug please reopen it and explain how it still applies.

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BTS_msg_id: CAAgawWX+fo2wwD7C4SR9nnKnh-79VY0L33SW6kQAj74XJ8NSaA@mail.gmail.com BTS author: Joshua Honeycutt joshua.honeycutt@gmail.com

I am closing this bug because the jessie synergy package has been backported to wheezy by Pierre Rudloff in August 2014 with version 1.4.16-1~bpo70+1.

I am trying to clean up old bugs for synergy as the new maintainer. If I have made an error in closing this bug please reopen it and explain how it still applies.