Muon?

[RPC]

So the 16.04 LTS will not have a UI for package maintenance?  Will there 
be an alternative to users who aren't shell-savvy?

On 2016-04-11 03:40 PM, Rick Timmis wrote:
>
> On 10/03/16 04:34, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 6:55 AM, Mitch Golden <mgolden at mitchgolden.com> wrote:
>>> I know that muon (libqapt2 actually) is not available in the current
>>> backports repository.  Is it planned to include muon in the 16.04 release? I
>>> have been doing some work on trying to get muon and libqapt to build, so far
>>> with only partial success.
>>>
>>>    - Mitch Golden
>> Hey Mitch, I don't see a reply to you about Muon. As far as I know,
>> Muon will not be on the ISO. What a query to ubottu in IRC shows me is
>> that it is in universe, version 4:5.4.3-0ubuntu1 (xenial).
>>
>> Perhaps Rick Timmis can tell us more?
>>
>> Valorie
>>
> Hi
>
> Muon was orphaned, Ovidiu-florin and I have said that we will take on
> it's maintainence.
> I have worked with Clive to get it packaged, and we have it building. It
> crashes on checking for updates, and we're looking into that
> There is another Carlos I believe who has done some work on Muon, and
> has proposed rebuilding the UI in QML, but we'll have to see how that goes.
>
> I hope to get it packaged and testing in the coming 2 weeks. I don't see
> it making the release ISO in 16.04, but we'll try to get it updated in
> the repo's and perhaps we can rebundle it in 16.10
>
> Hope that helps
> Rick
>
>
>

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