(just cced to lool, since he is interested in ubuntu packages as well) ----- Forwarded message from Bernie Innocenti <ber...@codewiz.org> -----
From: Bernie Innocenti <ber...@codewiz.org> Subject: Sugar packaging in Squeeze, Karmic To: IAEP <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org> Cc: Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk>, Morgan Collett <morgan.coll...@gmail.com>, Simone Roselli <srose...@develer.com>, Aleksey Lim <alsr...@member.fsf.org>, "Christopher R. Gabriel" <cgabr...@truelite.it>, Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:16:49 +0200 Hello, I would like to summarize the current status of Sugar in the upcoming Debian and Ubuntu releases. Debian is also upstream to Skolelinux and FUSS (Free Upgrade Southtyrol's Schools), which are of special importance to us because they are already being deployed in a number of schools. Up to date .deb packages of Sugar 0.84.6 appear to be available in both Sid and Squeeze, courtesy of Jonas: http://packages.debian.org/sid/sugar-0.84 (see at the botton for a full list of packages in Debian) Karmic has already picked these up: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sugar-0.84 There's also a misleading sugar 0.83.x package in Ubuntu, apparently unmaintained since last May: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sugar There's also a request to upgrade to Sugar 0.86, but nobody seems to be working on it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sugar-0.84/+bug/358419 Our tireless hero Aleksey is also providing an impressive set of automatically built fresh packages from his personal archive, including partial 0.86 builds: https://launchpad.net/~alsroot/+archive/ppa https://launchpad.net/~alsroot/+archive/sugar-0.86 So far, this doesn't tell us much about what the overall user experience in Debian and Ubuntu might be like. In Karmic, sugar-emulator appears to work fine. There's also an X session, but I couldn't test it yet. A bunch of questions come to mind: 1) Is anyone routinely testing Sugar in Debian? 2) Is anyone routinely testing Sugar in Ubuntu? 3) Who is tracking the current status, setting a roadmap and handling bug reports? 4) Would someone be interested in pushing this work downstream to Skolelinux and FUSS? The Ubuntu Sugar Team would make a good candidate, but it seems to have gone silent a few months ago: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SugarTeam https://launchpad.net/~sugarteam The full list of Sugar related packages in Debian is quite impressive: python-sugar python-sugar-0.84 python-sugar-toolkit python-sugar-toolkit-0.84 python-sugar-toolkit-0.86 python2.5-sugar python2.5-sugar-0.84 python2.5-sugar-toolkit python2.5-sugar-toolkit-0.84 python2.5-sugar-toolkit-0.86 python2.6-sugar python2.6-sugar-0.84 python2.6-sugar-toolkit python2.6-sugar-toolkit-0.84 python2.6-sugar-toolkit-0.86 sugar sugar-0.84 sugar-activities sugar-artwork sugar-artwork-0.84 sugar-calculate-activity sugar-chat-activity sugar-connect-activity sugar-flipsticks-activity sugar-jigsawpuzzle-activity sugar-journal-activity sugar-logviewer-activity sugar-memorize-activity sugar-pippy-activity sugar-pollbuilder-activity sugar-presence-service sugar-presence-service-0.84 sugar-read-activity sugar-sharedstate-classes sugar-sharingtest-activity sugar-sliderpuzzle-activity sugar-terminal-activity sugar-turtleart-activity sugar-web-activity -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Aleksey _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep