[Bug 274820] Re: Sugar feature freeze exception

[Morgan Collett]

I am an upstream developer and have been involved in the Sugar 0.82
release, so I'm very familiar with the upstream source. I am the direct
upstream maintainer of sugar-chat-activity, sugar-read-activity, sugar-
pollbuilder-activity and co-maintainer of sugar-presence-server.

I will discuss what Jani has raised with the Debian team. We have some
activities packaged that they don't yet have, although in most cases
there have not been significant updates since the hardy versions, so
that's not a significant problem. I'll see if we can get those
activities into Debian.

At this point, Ubuntu is considered the best platform for people to use
for Sugar besides OLPC's XO. This is due to the hardy packages, as well
as the PPA that I mentioned.  I would hate to see that regress.

Admittedly I am new to deb packaging, although I have in the course of
working for OLPC become a fedora maintainer for several of the Sugar
components, and am confident that I'll master the deb packaging in short
order.

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Sugar feature freeze exception
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Status in “sugar” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: sugar

Sugar (http://sugarlabs.org/) is the UI from One Laptop Per Child that has spun off into an upstream project. 

The intrepid packaging is very out of date since it hasn't been updated since hardy. Jani Monoses did that packaging but hasn't been able to work on this. We have formed a Sugar Team to work on packaging (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SugarTeam) but we are quite behind on this.

There has been a major release of Sugar recently, which we want to land in intrepid.

We want to sync Sugar's 0.82.x packages from debian, according to this list: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SugarTeam/Packages - there are a few minor packages which debian doesn't have, where we do have updated packaging in a PPA: https://launchpad.net/~chapter78/+archive

None of the packages we want to touch are dependencies of other things - this is a very self-contained project at this stage.

Please grant a Feature Freeze exception for Sugar so we can get this updated.