On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:46 AM, Aleix Pol <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm sending this e-mail because I would like to know what's the opinion of > Kubuntu regarding this change. Does Kubuntu also want to do the change?
yes > Are there impediments? yes... Lack of tech and the fact that ubuntu in general doesn't have a concrete plan for switching at this point (which also is related to the tech). I've only talked about it briefly but for full blown support there is a number of things that need to be implemented as the idea is to ship the data via the repositories themselves which in turn means that apt needs to grow support for this (it'd bascially fetch the appstream data on a per-repo basis concurrent to the actual package list as it were). And on the server side launchpad's build infrastructure supposedly needs to grow support for generation of the data (with app-install-data the data is currently created off-site from a full-archive-mirror ... it's all very nasty). > Is there anything KDE should do to make this happen? nothing comes to mind Quoting verbatim on how this should probably work: [11:10] <mvo> apachelogger: my understand is that this is the goal, yes. the data is gathered at the archive server via some mechanism (package inspection e.g. at build time). then a yaml file is generated and placed next to the Packages file. this is something that I want to support with apt, but there is no plan about integrating the generation of the data into archive.ubuntu.com right now [11:11] <mvo> apachelogger: I think noone is opposed and we would certainly welcome help, e.g. via support in apt-ftparchive or launchpad I suspect if debian-kde wants to switch they already have a solid plan for the tech? If not then I think realistically we are not looking at adoption before 2015 (which is when their next release is planned anyway I think). Until then we'll probably have to hold on to app-install-data. That is to say: for 14.10 we'll not be able to switch away from app-install-data; 15.04 maybe if we can muster some resources to get the proper tech going. HS -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
