[Merge] lp:~stgraber/indicator-power/revert-20130913 into lp:indicator-power

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 14 Sep 2013 20:38, "Ted Gould" <ted at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 23:34 -0400, Stéphane Graber wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:14:08PM -0400, Didier Roche wrote:
>> > Le 13/09/2013 23:10, Ted Gould a écrit :
>> > >On Sat, 2013-09-14 at 02:47 +0000, Didier Roche wrote:
>> > >>Reverted because it's breaking FFe, Upstream, please file one before
merging that.
>> > >
>> > >Seriously, not cool guys.  We landed this feature back in August.
>> > >Then it got backed out because of a MIR, which we filed and
>> > >finally got in.  Then we got blocked by the release system not
>> > >releasing indicator-power for almost two weeks.
>> > >
>> > >That being said it's a menu item that only appears on the phone
>> > >and should be covered by the FFe for indicator features that are
>> > >exclusive to the phone UI.
>> >
>> > Ted, look at the discussion on IRC:
>> > http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2013/09/14/%23ubuntu-devel.html#t01:41
>>
>> So, to summarize, all the dependencies are indeed in main and so the
>> resulting package is perfectly fine on the phone.
>>
>> The problem is that this added dependency also brings 10 extra packages
>> to the Ubuntu Desktop installation, most if not all of those packages
>> are supposed to be touch-specific and as such benefit from the generic
>> touch FFe that was granted earlier on.
>
>
> I understand your concern about bringing in additional packages onto the
desktop image.  What I don't agree with is removing the feature from
indicator-power instead of figuring out the issues with all of those
packages being brought onto the image.  The issue is that
liburl-dispatcher1 recommends url-dispatcher, as is customary on libraries
that implement the interface of a service.
>
> We could remove the recommends.  While that is breaking with tradition,
from a practical level there will be no issue as url-dispatcher itself can
be seeded on the touch images and we'll only be using it's features on
those images anyway.
>
> If other people have solutions, I'd be happy to hear them.  I don't think
that we should revert a feature over a packaging issue.
>

Actually i wish libraries and dev packages did not depend on the runtime
utilities, they get in the way when crosscompiling stuff against the
library.

With respect to recommends - i think even now still ubuntu touch seed does
not seed recommends, only depends. Thus a recommends is not enough to get
that runtime utility onto the seed. Desktop seed however does consider
recommends. Is url-dispatcher ready to be used on the desktop? In that case
maybe apply for FFe to get it in now.

Regards,

Dmitrijs.

> Ted
>
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