> These packages seem broken enough that there couldn't be any negative > consequence to doing this, right? It seems like the least bad (and only) > option.
Right. They are uninstallable for several reasons (one of them being that Ubuntu switched to multiarch libraries much earlier). > Are you still happy with fusionforge going into newer Ubuntu releases? The FF team is split on that, but the general consensus seems to be to tell people to “just use the Debian packages” (from unstable). I think most of the current breakage in those older versions could have avoided by using piuparts before the release, though. I can’t really say. The FF developers don’t have any resources (and most don’t want to, either) to keep ensuring FF works on Ubuntu, so that would have to be done by people working on Ubuntu instead. I don’t think Canonical wants to do that, so unless there are volunteers, we all might be better off by not releasing FF in Ubuntu any more. (There are always Debian packages, the FF Jenkins auto- built snapshot packages, and PPAs.) Emphasis on the “might”, as I am unsure. In FF, “if Ubuntu wants to release them, they need to maintain them; they can take everything from Debian and our SVN but need to work on it themselves” was also heard. So, technically, no reason against, but would only work if you found a volunteer. > For future reference: The release team[…] Ah, okay. Noted, thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/869986 Title: Fusionforge fails-to-install cleanup To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fusionforge/+bug/869986/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
