[Pkg-ayatana-devel] Bug#609278: progress on Unity?

Adnan Hodzic adnan at foolcontrol.org
Mon Mar 21 15:52:25 UTC 2011


> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <a.starr.b at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We should probably have a larger discussion on pkg-ayatana-devel about
> goals/plans for the group in Wheezy, but a first step that would be
> useful would be to make sure http://wiki.debian.org/Ayatana/Packages
> is up-to-date. Currently it only has the packages which integrate into
> GNOME 2.X sessions, not all of the stuff required for Unity. We could
> probably also use a page that tracks/examines what patches to
> non-Ayatana packages that Ubuntu is carrying in order to build Unity.

Great, because I tried to make some sort of  "deps check"
http://paste.debian.net/plain/105221 (long time ago) wasn't aware
there was http://wiki.debian.org/Ayatana/Packages which is great
because I was thinking of re-packaging indicator-* stuff first and
I'll make sure I update the list.

I'll redo the whole process, and will report back on the results on
what happens.

> Also, it should be noted that Unity is currently implemented as a
> plugin to the Compiz 0.9.x branch. Which is only in experimental, so
> uploads need to be targeted there.

I agree, all uploads should be in experimental.


Adnan

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
<a.starr.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Adnan Hodzic <adnan at foolcontrol.org> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Jon Dowland wrote:
>>>> Has there been any progress on this ITP?
>>>
>>> Not that I know. You're welcome to help, Adnan is doing lots of other
>>> stuff already and pkg-ayatana is largely understaffed in general.
>>
>> Thank you Raphael for this very thoughtful observation, as it is
>> absolutely true.
>>
>> I kind of paused this whole process at the moment, was even thinking
>> of adding RFH tag to this ITP if that's even possible. Implementation
>> of Unity into Debian requires immense amount of work to be done, and
>> I'm not even sure it can be done by one person. Before I paused this
>> process, huge deal of packages were missing in Debian, even in case
>> they were present in Debian they required patching. Of course, these
>> packages could be repackaged directly from Ubuntu as they are already
>> patched and working nicely in Ubuntu.
>>
>> Before resuming this process I believe we need to figure out which way
>> to go. I assume it's patching current Debian packages. As Raphael
>> already said, I'm doing bunch of other stuff, so help would be highly
>> appreciated. If I could get extra pair of hands and where we would
>> divide duties among ourselves I believe this whole process could be
>> finished relatively fast.
>
> We should probably have a larger discussion on pkg-ayatana-devel about
> goals/plans for the group in Wheezy, but a first step that would be
> useful would be to make sure http://wiki.debian.org/Ayatana/Packages
> is up-to-date. Currently it only has the packages which integrate into
> GNOME 2.X sessions, not all of the stuff required for Unity. We could
> probably also use a page that tracks/examines what patches to
> non-Ayatana packages that Ubuntu is carrying in order to build Unity.
>
> Also, it should be noted that Unity is currently implemented as a
> plugin to the Compiz 0.9.x branch. Which is only in experimental, so
> uploads need to be targeted there.
>
> - Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
>



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