[Pkg-sugar-devel] Why track activity version numbers?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting James Cameron (2017-04-22 11:45:06)
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 10:14:50AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> >  1) Download the installer for soon-to-become-stable Debian Stretch:
> >     https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
> >  2) When asked mid-way through install what to include, deselect all
> >  3) Log in as root, and run this command:
> >     apt install sucrose lightdm
> 
> 4) run this command:
> 
>    service lightdm start
> 
> 5) in the greeter, change to Sugar rather than the default X session,
> 
> 6) log in as the non-root user created during install.

Thanks, James!


> Existing bugs reproduced;
> 
> - Write #848838 "constant flicker of cursor and document" is most
>   likely AbiWord #851052 (orphaned), and I'm working to test an
>   AbiWord patch for it,

Yes, I saw your conversation with pabs when I got up today.  Looking 
forward to progress on that.


> - Browse #848840 "does not start, complains about collabwrapper",

Sebastian is (maybe) working on this...


> - Journal #848841 "multiple select does not show actions toolbar" is
>   fixed upstream, though I've not got the exact commit handy,

Perhaps https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar commit 2752c4b - referencing 
https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4971 ?


> New bug reported for Jukebox, waiting for the bug number; possibly
> related to #554906 but also a problem with Python path, fixed upstream
> sugar-toolkit-gtk3 495eed8 "Prepend instead of append to path".

Fixed. Thanks!


> For what it is worth;
> 
> - #849092 "Port to Python 3 and python3-gst-1.0" is not yet planned to
>   be fixed upstream, we're still on Python 2.x, but I do appreciate 
>   the problem.

Yeah, that's a major task not suitable for Stretch (next Debian release) 
but certainly valuable for future releases - and for derivatives like 
Ubuntu with faster release cycles too, so preferrably _long_ before 
Buster (the next-next Debian release).


 - Jonas

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