Sugar desktop on Focal

[James Cameron]

On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 01:10:41PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 06:53:06AM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> > Dimitri, I don't know enough about sponsorship to know if this is
> > a request for sponsorship, but previously Debian did package
> > Sugar, and in consequence Ubuntu made it available.  That has
> > changed, and I don't know why, but I guess it is because people
> > are too busy.
> 
> You can always look at
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/<source-package-name>/+publishinghistory
> to see what happened.  For instance:
> 
>   https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sugar/+publishinghistory
> 
> ... expand the "Deleted" row for focal at the top and you see the
> removal reason:
> 
>   "remove sugar, depending on pygtk"

Thanks, I'll keep an eye on that page.

Depending on pygtk was fixed many years ago; we ported to GTK 3.

Depending on Python 2 was fixed last year; we ported to Python 3.

I guess people too busy.

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James Cameron
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