Plasma 5 on Kubuntu 14.10

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 08:40:53PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, July 02, 2014 10:49:17 Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > ...

> > >> Because you're building it from a ppa, so it's not a remix.

> > > ...

> > > Canonical has published "remixes" that included PPA packages, so there's
> > > nothing novel about this.  I can't seem to find the official definition of
> > > a Remix on Ubuntu.com anymore, but IIRC UNR [1] was not fully in the
> > > archive when initially released.  I don't think the Moblin Remix [2] was
> > > either, but my memory about that one is less clear.

> > > I actually agree that is should not be a remix, but that's not the way the
> > > term has been used so far.

> > I believe this was tightened [1] up by the tech board after
> > conversations [2] back in 2012 about Ubuntu Business Remix and the
> > policy surrounding the extension repos.

> > [1]
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2012-February/001215.html
> > [2]
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2012-January/001177.html

> Nothing in those links says you can't have non-archive packages in a Remix.  
> Rather the opposite.

However, it does say that the only packages you can include in a Remix are
those from the Ubuntu archive and those in TB-approved extension
repositories; and a core characteristic of the extension repositories is
that they do not contain packages that are already in the Ubuntu archive.

From this discussion, it's clear to me that the reason for using a ppa for
this tech preview is that it will contain non-mainline versions of packages
in the Ubuntu archive.

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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