Steve, I'll continue to comment on this bug, since grilo is the proximate cause of this discussion.
So you are correct that main implies Canonical support. In the case of a flavor-only package, Canonical presumably doesn't want to depend on a community flavor team, nor does that community flavor team presumably want to be depended on by Canonical in that way. I think the confusion is partly historical. Back in the day, flavors were much more "in the fold" and Canonical *was* willing to offer support for them (like Kubuntu/GNOME). So having a flavor team look after packages in main wasn't odd. After Canonical dropped support for Kubuntu/GNOME, they were demoted from main. But there are still shared packages that cause problems like this grilo bug. Where for purely technical/packaging reasons, Canonical gets asked to support a feature they don't use and may end up blocking that feature from being offered in a community flavor. Which neither side is thrilled with. Is there no way to mark a package in main as 'not supported?' I remember that we have some way to mark a universe package as supported. Can we do the inverse? That would let us promote grilo without putting Canonical on the hook. In any case, historically the MIR team did not *require* a team looking after the package. Only recently have we started blocking promotion based on that. And even then, we haven't required that the team be from Canonical. Should we loop someone from Canonical's support team in? See how they handle flavor packages like this? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to grilo-plugins in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1394731 Title: [MIR] grilo-plugins Status in grilo-plugins package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Bug description: Availability: In universe, builds on all archs Rational: grilo-plugins is now a dependency of totem and is hard to patch out. See lp:1393067 Security: No known CVEs Quality Assurance: No bugs in debian or ubuntu, most upstream bugs are feature requests. Active debian maintainer. Has watch file. Tests are run during build. UI standards: The package is translated upstream. Dependencies: All deps in main Standards compliance: No issues Maintenance: Actively maintained in debian. ubuntu-gnome team will subscribe in ubuntu. Background info: Grilo is a framework focused on making media discovery and browsing easy for application developers. This package contains it's plugins, including the tracker one, which is now needed by totem To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grilo-plugins/+bug/1394731/+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
