@mhall any update about the help from other flavors and FFE info? On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Aaron Honeycutt <[email protected]> wrote:
> @Clive do you mind if I add mhall into this thread to see if we can get > some attention to this big issue? I think it would be very important as > well as awesome to have Muon back for a LTS. > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Clive Johnston <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> The version in the xenial archive does not work as it requires libmuon >> which >> cant be installed. This renders it totally useless without hacking stuff >> together. >> >> The current snapshot of Muon from KDE git needs a current snapshot of >> libqapt >> in order to run properly. The reason for this is because the last commit >> introduces a mechanism to detect cache reloading and emits a signal when >> that >> happens. Basically these two pieces of software need each other to >> function >> correctly (sender/receiver model) Muon will crash without the updated >> libqapt. >> >> https://quickgit.kde.org/? >> p=libqapt.git&a=commit&h=e63d3239a7846eb968151ebdd4f12e0921e0f13a >> >> I packaged both libqapt & muon and have been using them for a few weeks >> now >> with no problems. Several other people have also tested it. I opened a >> FFE >> request to try and get it into Xenial >> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/muon/+bug/1562406 >> >> However, no-one from the release team has acknowledged my request. I even >> asked mhall to look into it for us, but still nothing. The problem is >> that we >> need to upload both libqapt and muon together for this to work, and I cant >> find anyone to sponsor me to do that. >> >> Rick and I were working on cleaning up the packaging for release and I >> noticed >> mhall asking for help in the release channel only to be totally ignored, >> so >> I'm afraid to say I let frustration and pure ill temper win and I washed >> my >> hands of it all. >> >> I pushed some of the packaging to the kubuntu_unstable branches in >> Debian, but >> they still need minor work (changelog synced with archive and muon build >> deps >> cleaned up). >> >> Clive >> >> >> On Monday, 11 April 2016 20:40:43 BST Rick Timmis wrote: >> > On 10/03/16 04:34, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: >> > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 6:55 AM, Mitch Golden < >> [email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> I know that muon (libqapt2 actually) is not available in the current >> > >> backports repository. Is it planned to include muon in the 16.04 >> > >> release? I have been doing some work on trying to get muon and >> libqapt >> > >> to build, so far with only partial success. >> > >> >> > >> - Mitch Golden >> > > >> > > Hey Mitch, I don't see a reply to you about Muon. As far as I know, >> > > Muon will not be on the ISO. What a query to ubottu in IRC shows me is >> > > that it is in universe, version 4:5.4.3-0ubuntu1 (xenial). >> > > >> > > Perhaps Rick Timmis can tell us more? >> > > >> > > Valorie >> > >> > Hi >> > >> > Muon was orphaned, Ovidiu-florin and I have said that we will take on >> > it's maintainence. >> > I have worked with Clive to get it packaged, and we have it building. It >> > crashes on checking for updates, and we're looking into that >> > There is another Carlos I believe who has done some work on Muon, and >> > has proposed rebuilding the UI in QML, but we'll have to see how that >> goes. >> > >> > I hope to get it packaged and testing in the coming 2 weeks. I don't see >> > it making the release ISO in 16.04, but we'll try to get it updated in >> > the repo's and perhaps we can rebundle it in 16.10 >> > >> > Hope that helps >> > Rick >> >> >> >> -- >> kubuntu-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel >> > >
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