On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 2:21 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
I think what might really help is getting Muon released, along with libqapt. Asking the release team for an FFE for git snapshots seems a bit questionable, especially for an LTS. Can you get a release done soon? Valorie -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
