Muon?

[Aaron Honeycutt]

@mhall any update about the help from other flavors and FFE info?

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Aaron Honeycutt <honeycuttaaron3 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> @Clive do you mind if I add mhall into this thread to see if we can get
> some attention to this big issue? I think it would be very important as
> well as awesome to have Muon back for a LTS.
>
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Clive Johnston <clivejo at gmail.com> 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 <
>> mgolden at mitchgolden.com>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
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