Please remove package from Lucid

[David Farning]

Binary package hint: sugar-calculate-activity

Please remove this package from Lucid

Remove binary and source

This package has not been update since Mar 2008. The preferred method
for installing sugar activities in ubuntu is using activity bundle via
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/

This system is very similar to how firefox addons are installed via
addons.mozilla.org .

david

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

sugar-calculate-activity is actively maintained in Debian (and synced to Ubuntu). The last upload was 2009-11-06. There is no reason to remove it. Therefore I set this bug to invalid.

[David Farning (dfarning)]

I reset as needs more information

Yes, It is periodically maintained upstream. But it is no longer required. The preferred method of installing sugar activities is through activities.sugarlabs.org.

I have become the primary ubuntu maintainer for Sugar related packages. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuSugarRemix

Maintaining multiple version and installation methods is causing significant confusion to our users.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

I have a different opinion. You compared the sugar extensions to the Firefox extensions. You can easily install Firefox extensions as user, but we provide many extensions through the archive. Having the extensions in the archive gives us some advantages:
* The extension is free (libre) software and we trust the source.
* You can install them system wide.
* The extension works with the Firefox version that we have in the archive.

As long the extension in the archive works with the sugar version in the archive, we should keep them.

[David Farning (dfarning)]

+1 keeping the activities updated will give me some much need experience.

The next question is:

Several of these older activity packages were packaged several years
ago by one packager using a specific method. Moving forward, we will
be working with the current upstream dd. He has a different style.
Are there any challenges we should be aware of when syncing packages
of the same name which are actually quite different?

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Benjamin Drung
<email address hidden> wrote:
> I have a different opinion. You compared the sugar extensions to the Firefox extensions. You can easily install Firefox extensions as user, but we provide many extensions through the archive. Having the extensions in the archive gives us some advantages:
> * The extension is free (libre) software and we trust the source.
> * You can install them system wide.
> * The extension works with the Firefox version that we have in the archive.
>
> As long the extension in the archive works with the sugar version in the
> archive, we should keep them.
>
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> Please remove package from Lucid
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/512607
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[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Are there any challenges we should be aware of when syncing packages of the same name which are actually quite different?

I see no problem in changing the way of packaging. There are many new tools that make packaging easier and simpler. You only have to take care that no required Ubuntu change is dropped.

Now I can set this bug to invalid.