[Bug 277770] Re: Please sync sugar 0.82.0-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main).

[James Westby]

Hi Morgan,

Thanks for the information.

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 07:42 +0000, Morgan Collett wrote:
> Debian do not want to provide the sugar-activities metapackage. In the
> hardy packages, this is produced by the sugar sourcepackage.
> 
> My intention is to add the metapackage back to debian's sugar package
> once we have it synced - unfortunately it is a deviation but a very
> minor one.

I would be happy to sponsor a package that contained this so that we
don't introduce a bug in Ubuntu.

> In the long term, we will have more activities (apps) packaged in Debian
> (and some are only in Ubuntu but we will submit them to Debian) and then
> having a metapackage that installs *everything* will no longer be
> appropriate, but upstream is producing a set of activities which are
> developed in tight coordination with the Sugar platform, called
> Fructose, whereas other activities are community-developed on their own
> schedule (and code-named Honey). This is reflected on our
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SugarTeam/Packages page. So in intrepid+1 we may
> replace sugar-activities with sugar-fructose as a metapackage which
> pulls in the "upstream blessed" activities.

Please remember that the package was in Hardy, and so you need to
support upgrades to the next LTS. What this means is that you should
make sure those who have the metapackage installed on hardy get a
sensible result when they upgrade to Intrepid, and to the next LTS.

In practice, this normally means keeping the metapackage around as
a dummy transitional package until after the next LTS.

It's up to you to decide what a sensible set of packages means. For
instance dropping the package would mean that most users would probably
end up with no activities installed, which is probably wrong. The
upgrade could perhaps leave them with a different set of activities
installed (fructose?), if you think that is more appropriate.

> For now I would prefer to continue using sugar-activities as a patch
> carried over from the hardy packages - but we will continue working with
> Debian to feed our patches and suggestions back to them and minimise the
> delta.

That's great.

Thanks,

James

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Please sync sugar 0.82.0-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main).
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