** Description changed: Snap development using Mir has been using the "stable phone overlay" PPA which is both inconvenient and a legacy of the cancelled Unity8 project. It would greatly simplify things if Mir were updated in the Xenial archive. Mir has two categories of dependent project: - 1 packages related to Unity8 (and unity-system-compositor) - 2 toolkits and other "clients" of Mir + 1 packages related to Unity8 (and unity-system-compositor) + 2 toolkits and other "clients" of Mir We should remove the first category as it is not helpful to carry these in the LTS. The second category is dependent only on libmirclient which is ABI stable + + notes: + + A recursive search or rdependencies identifies the following packages in + category 1: + + camera-app-autopilot + gallery-app-autopilot + indicator-network-autopilot + indicators-client + python3-mir-perf-framework + qtdeclarative5-qtmir-plugin + qtmir-android + qtmir-desktop + qtmir-tests + ubuntu-desktop-mir + ubuntu-experience-tests + ubuntu-pocket-desktop + ubuntu-push-autopilot + ubuntu-touch + ubuntu-touch-session + unity8 + unity8-autopilot + unity8-desktop-session-mir + unity-scope-click-autopilot + unity-system-compositor + unity-system-compositor-autopilot
** Changed in: mir (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Alan Griffiths (alan-griffiths) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to mir in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1685186 Title: Mir needs to be updated in 16.04 and the dependency tree trimmed Status in mir package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Snap development using Mir has been using the "stable phone overlay" PPA which is both inconvenient and a legacy of the cancelled Unity8 project. It would greatly simplify things if Mir were updated in the Xenial archive. Mir has two categories of dependent project: 1 packages related to Unity8 (and unity-system-compositor) 2 toolkits and other "clients" of Mir We should remove the first category as it is not helpful to carry these in the LTS. The second category is dependent only on libmirclient which is ABI stable notes: A recursive search or rdependencies identifies the following packages in category 1: camera-app-autopilot gallery-app-autopilot indicator-network-autopilot indicators-client python3-mir-perf-framework qtdeclarative5-qtmir-plugin qtmir-android qtmir-desktop qtmir-tests ubuntu-desktop-mir ubuntu-experience-tests ubuntu-pocket-desktop ubuntu-push-autopilot ubuntu-touch ubuntu-touch-session unity8 unity8-autopilot unity8-desktop-session-mir unity-scope-click-autopilot unity-system-compositor unity-system-compositor-autopilot To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mir/+bug/1685186/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp