Muon in need of a maintainer

[Aleix Pol]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Rick Timmis <rick.timmis at abazander.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 12/11/15 00:32, Aleix Pol wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Rick Timmis <rick.timmis at abazander.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Quick Confirmation
>>>
>>> Is this the correct code base ?
>>>
>>> https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=muon.git
>>>
>>> Looks like from Alex's commit log, that this now represent just
>>> Muon-installer ( aka Package Manager ) as the other tools have been split
>>> out, am I correct ?
>>>
>>> ty
>>> Rick
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/11/15 14:34, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Great, go for it.
>>>>
>>>> Check the current Git source and find something to fix.  Triage the
>>>> bugs and work on some easy ones.  Get me or Aleix or someone to commit
>>>> changes and once you've got a few in you can apply for a KDE committer
>>>> account.
>>>>
>>>> Also work out if you want it released with KDE Applications or in its
>>>> own
>>>> time with KDE Extragear.
>>>>
>>>> Jonathan
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 08:47:38PM +0000, Rick Timmis wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll take it...
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm a bit of a freshman, but looking for something to play with in
>>>>> QT...
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll need a few pointers and I won't be able to work much on it May
>>>>> - Sept as it always goes crazy with family stuff then..
>>>>>
>>>>> But if your happy with these previso's I'd be delighted to take it over
>>>>>
>>>>> Rick
>>>>>
>>>>> On 09/11/15 12:03, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Muon, the Apt package installer UI is in need of a maintainer.  It has
>>>>>> been split out from Discover and Updater which are application focused
>>>>>> and to some extent work with multiple backends.  Muon is package
>>>>>> focused and covers the surprisingly important use case of technical
>>>>>> users who care about libraries and package versions but don't want to
>>>>>> use a command line.  It'll probably move to unmaintained unless anyone
>>>>>> wants to keep an eye on it so speak up now if you want to help out.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jonathan
>>>>>>
>> Correct. For completion, note that "muon-installer" was discontinued
>> some months ago already. What you're maintaining is "muon package
>> manager". The plan is to fade out the muon part from discover
>> progressively. For example I haven't split them on bugs.kde.org just
>> yet.
>>
>> Thanks for stepping forward!
>>
>> Ale_i_x :)
>>
> Great, thanks
>
> OK so I am sooo wayyyy out of my depth it's feeling pretty exciting..
> I've got the code cloned, and pulled into Kdevelop.
> I hopped the first few hurdles with CMake and dependencies.
> extra-cmake-modules
> qt5-defaults
> libqt5svg5-dev
>
> I'm stuck on Qt 5 Qml  I have libqt5qml5 installed and apt-cache search
> returns no -dev version
>
> I'm on a stock Kubuntu 15.10, so maybe there is some magic dev
> "build-essential" type thing that I need to install ?
>
> I'm making progress and KeithZG say's he'll help me too. I figured once I
> have understood how to build it. I'll share my notes with KeithZG and we can
> both have a hack on it...
>
> It'll never compile again ;-)
>
> Thanks in advance for advice on the above
>
> Rick

Hi Rick,
I just pushed a change that trims unused dependencies such as QtQml,
although I don't see how it used to be a problem.
Small trick: "apt-get install build-dep muon".

Hope this helps.
Aleix