[Desktop] Release Meeting 2011-12-16

[Martin Pitt]

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/ReleaseStatus

== What was done engineering wise? ==

 * Landed GTK 3.3 development release, no major problems known.
 * Fixed several bugs which caused lucid->precise or oneiric->precise upgrades to fail. We had to revert Bug:901638 until soprano-daemon gets fixed (a first attempt was made to build soprano against unixodbc, but that fails at runtime).
 * Fixed remaining long-standing uninstallability in main.
 * poppler ABI transition/porting now fully done in main and universe. That took quite some porting work and reiterated a discussion how much mandays we should really spend on fixing every bit of universe, but it's done now.
 * Started improving accessibility functionality of the Unity greeter, adding keyboard shortcuts for screen reader, high contrast, and accessing the indicator menu bar.

== What's about to land that might impact the other teams? ==

 * Nothing planned right now.

== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items ==

 * Help from Kubuntu team to move soprano-daemon to unixodbc would be greatly appreciated. (Bug:901638)

== RC bugs ==

Details on all tracked bugs are on the wiki page. The outstanding ones for alpha-2 are:

 * https://launchpad.net/bugs/902553 [package doc-base 0.10.3 failed to install/upgrade]: This was believed to be fixed with Bug:89788, but got more confirmation; unreproducible for now, needs more debugging.
 * https://launchpad.net/bugs/850264 [given a foreign architecture of i386 on amd64 machine, and an outdated libc, apt tries to remove libc-bin]: Martin provided a test case, Michael discovered that it's already fixed in trunk, will backport or land a new apt by alpha-2
 * https://launchpad.net/bugs/901638 [Remove iodbc2 (causes upgrade failure from Oneiric to Precise)]: We have a patch to fix the upgrade, but needed to revert it because soprano-daemon still needs the obsolete iodbc2 driver. Help appreciated.
 * https://launchpad.net/bugs/903475 [Failed to upgrade from Oneiric to Precise: E:Could not perform immediate configuration on 'openoffice.org-writer]: This should be fixed, waiting on auto dist-upgrade tester to confirm

Martin

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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)
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