Re: i386 EOL plans for Ubuntu Desktop?

[Bryan Quigley]

Sorry for the late notice - there is a live discussion scheduled for
this Wednesday on this topic for any flavors that want to further the
discussion.

http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-16 11/meeting/22714/architecture-discussions/

On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Bryan Quigley
 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> From the thread on Ubuntu-devel/discuss [1] I'm going to start
> conversations with each flavor on what their plans are for i386 in the
> 18.04 timeframe.  Also see the survey [2] results to get a rough idea
> of the impact.
>
> The general ideas are:
> A. Drop ubuntu-desktop i386 ISO for 16.10 and drop some packages from
> the i386 archive - likely Unity7/8*.
> B.  Just drop ubuntu-desktop i386 ISO for 16.10.
> C.  Keep everything as is for 18.04, and then consider dropping i386
> in 18.10 timeframe.
>
> Thoughts?
> Bryan
>
> * You could consider any packages that are 100% specific to the Unity flavor.
>
> [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2016-June/039420.html
>
> [2] These results are Unity specific (about 80 of the 300 responses).
> How long do you expect this machine to last?
> at least 1 year - 16
> at least 3 years - 31
> at least 5 years - 20
> over 7 years -12
>
> What would be the effect if support ended... (1 is no impact, 5 is
> significant impact)
> April 2019
> 1 - 21
> 2 - 9
> 3 - 12
> 4 - 12
> 5 - 19
>
> April 2021  (16.04 LTS would cover these)
> 1 - 31
> 2 - 12
> 3 - 15
> 4 - 7
> 5 - 7
>
> April 2023
> 1 - 47
> 2 - 5
> 3 - 12
> 4 - 3
> 5 - 4

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Please build libreoffice-systray package (re-enable quickstarter) - sync with Debian LibreOffice packaging

[UAB "Bona Mens" paslaugos]

Hi Ubuntu LibreOffice packagers,

I've noticed, that in Ubuntu's LibreOffice 5.2 builds (PPA and
Yaketty) there is no possibility to enable quickstarter in Preferences
dialog, while in Debian LibreOffice 5.2 a new libreoffice-systray
package appeared, which provides this functionality.

Please build (re-enable) libreoffice-systray package, Ubuntu users
need faster LibreOffice startup, look at Debian bug 825642 for
example.
I support several schools and small companies, which use Libreoffice
since 2010 (and Ubuntu since 2008) - all computers have enabled
quickstarter, because LibreOffice startup is too long on older
hardware with slow HDDs ;)

Debian LibreOffice packages have re-enabled systray building since
5.2.1~rc1, see debian/changelog.
Here is the patch for ENABLE_SYSTRAY in debian/rules and creating
additional libreoffice-systray package in debian/control :
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-openoffice/libreoffice.git/commit/?id=9287282e7501487ab9e2a690a88e1022a26b148e

libreoffice (1:5.2.1~rc1-1) experimental; urgency=medium
  * new upstream release candidate .
  * debian/rules, debian/control.transitionals.in: readd -gtk astransitional
package; depend on -gtk2 (closes: #833676) and -systray
  * debian/rules: re-enable systray (closes: #825642)

I've also reported a bug, see:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1635847

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