On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 12:13:37AM -0800, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 4:17 AM, Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]> wrote: > > writing the status here before we forget it.. > > > > scarlett kindy did the backports of kf5 into utopic using the kubuntu-ninjas > > PPA (after some faff failing to get the kubuntu-next/staging ppa to accept > > them) > > they were copied to kubuntu-ppa/next but then we had reports of them causing > > failed upgrades so they were deleted > > I tidied up the backport of kglobalaccel which was breaking the upgrades > > Now when I try to copy them over to kubuntu-ppa/next it complains there is > > already that version of the package in kubuntu-ppa/next even though there is > > not > > > > if someone has the energy for it they can bump the version numbers in the > > packages in kubuntu-ninjas and get them all to compile again them copy them > > to kubuntu-ppa/next. But i'm mostly out of energy for it :( > > > > Jonathan > > Are we actually supporting next and next-backports for 14.10? My > broken system makes it appear that we are not. > > I suggest that we remove the notice about those in the KDE wiki, and > suggest people either use one of the ISOs for 14.10 or install Beta 1 > Vivid. > > I've never had an upgrade leave me unable to login to KDE before. Not > a good experience. I know that the next and next-backports are testing > material, so I was fairly warned. But we've run out of time to support > them, so let's cut our losses and put our energy into Vivid.
This sounds like a realistic idea to me. We don't seem to have the energy needed for a kf5 backport, we've said there won't be an upgrade root for 14.10 plasma5 to 15.04, so we'd be perfectly ok it's just a tech preview and it won't get any better. Jonathan -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
