Re : Edubuntu 16.04 and beyond

2016-05-19 Thread Shrinivasan T
I wish Edubuntu to be continued. I am happy to join with Ali/amjjawad to help on release process. Though I am new to ubuntu contributions, as a GNU/Linux admin for ten years, can learn things quickly and jump on actions soon. Please guide me on where to start on edubuntu release works. Thanks.

New proposed-migration uninstallability report for lib transitions

2016-05-19 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello all, If you have ever done a library or other transition that required landing a set of packages in lockstep, you probably know http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/update_output.txt However, this page only shows the uninstallability that a proposed package

Re: SRU never reviewed, why/how do we avoid that next time?

2016-05-19 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le 19/05/2016 14:54, Martin Pitt a écrit : > I'd say that cases like this at least require prodding some SRU team > member with some good reason -- I wouldn't expect these uploads to get > accepted as part of the regular workflow. Thanks for the feedback Martin! I think what you wrote makes

Re: SRU never reviewed, why/how do we avoid that next time?

2016-05-19 Thread Martin Pitt
Sebastien Bacher [2016-05-19 10:24 +0200]: > Libreoffice (to stay on that example) tends to exercice new compiler > versions/toolchain in challenging ways and it's not uncommon that > getting it to build on a new serie takes some time. Also it's often the > case that we aim at landing a new

Re: SRU never reviewed, why/how do we avoid that next time?

2016-05-19 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le 19/05/2016 09:55, Martin Pitt a écrit : > It appears to me that the same happened for wily: The wily SRU was > uploaded on Oct 28, but the xenial package only on Nov 11. So back > then the SRU wasn't accepted because of "devel first", and then it > probably feel into the mental category of

Re: SRU never reviewed, why/how do we avoid that next time?

2016-05-19 Thread Martin Pitt
Sebastien Bacher [2016-05-18 18:08 +0200]: > We had a libreoffice bugfix SRU in the week after the 15.10 release to > address some of the user feedback we received from the iso version, > that's still waiting in the queue unreviewed as far as we can tell (the > bugs references didn't get updates,