Please backport workrave 1.9.4-2 to oneiric

[Zhen]

After upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10, workrave disappear and I can not find workrave package in the software center anymore. Please add/port the package to 11.10 sources.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Damian Nadales (dnadales)]

I'm also affected by the same problem. Workrave was removed after the upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 and if I try to install it I get:

Package workrave is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'workrave' has no installation candidate

[razor7 (ghiamar)]

Hi, i think that package managers wouldn't upgrade to ubuntu 11.10, so we have to waith until package reaches 11.10.

Please advise on how to install it manually.

Thanks a lot!

[gianni (giannife)]

please add workrave!!!!
Is there any reason that led to the elimination of workrave?

[gianni (giannife)]

you can consider the "xwrits" alternative, available in ubuntu 11.10

[razor7 (ghiamar)]

Well, the package is there https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/amd64/workrave/1.9.3-2 -> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/62540396/workrave_1.9.3-2_amd64.deb but trying to install software center says "cannot satisfy dependency: libpanel-applet2-0"

Any ideas?

thanks a lot!

[daniele (bubozot)]

Please add workrave!!!! It helps me with my neck pain when I work.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Once workrave is sync'd to precise, it can be backported to oneiric (Someone will need to make sure it installs and runs). Moving this bug to the backports project to track this backport

[razor7 (ghiamar)]

Hi, it installs and runs.

Just needed to add wirkrave to whitelist applets

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/workrave/+bug/796824

[Vitalii (vitalii-lysov)]

Hello.
> it installs and runs
maybe only in 64-bit systems with provided link above.
But in 32-bit arch it is still not available in ubuntu software center, as well as in synaptic-package-manager.
Looking forward to see workrave ported here :)

[razor7 (ghiamar)]

Hi, you have to add the this ppa https://launchpad.net/~rob-caelers/+archive/workrave

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

I've uploaded packages for oneiric of workrave 1.9.4-2 to my Backports PPA (ppa:micahg/ppa) which should build in 6-8 hours. Please test that these packages install and run.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

For those that will want to grab the 2 debs, here's the link to the page that will have the debs once they're built: https://launchpad.net/~micahg/+archive/ppa/+sourcepub/2038591/+listing-archive-extra

[Colan Schwartz (colan)]

Tried it; didn't work:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  workrave: Depends: workrave-data (= 1.9.4-2~oneiric1~ppa1) which is a virtual package.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

That's because i386 didn't build yet. It's scheduled to start in 4 hours.

[Tumaini (hem)]

I've tried installing and running workrave from Micah's ppa and it seems to work well so far (also tried changing settings with success). Thanks for putting it up!

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Setting to confirmed based on comment #16 that it installs and runs and that it built in my PPA.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Also, there are no rdepends except a suggests by med-tools.

[Zhen (furykerry)]

The app installs and runs nicely for several days (in gnome shell environment), thanks for the effort.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

Cheers. Ack from ubuntu-backporters.

[sciencewhiz (christmasboy-81)]

After installing workrave from Micah's PPA, I had to select "Keep in Launcher" in order to get the prompts from workrave.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I: Extracting workrave_1.9.4-2.dsc ... done.
I: Building backport of workrave as 1.9.4-2~oneiric1 ... done.

[周成瑞 (e93b5ae3)]

Thank you, I just enabled backports waiting for it. :)

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Colin Watson <email address hidden> wrote:
> I: Extracting workrave_1.9.4-2.dsc ...  done.
> I: Building backport of workrave as 1.9.4-2~oneiric1 ...  done.
>
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> ** Changed in: oneiric-backports
>       Status: In Progress => Fix Released
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[Anton (feenstra)]

In my Oneiric 64 (upgraded from natty), I also lost workrave - and I have a sore arm as a result of that :-(
Anyway, nothing in the official repo's, but fortunately Mica's PPA works for me. Thumbs up!

Comes back the question that gianni and daniele also asked: why was it not included in oneiric in the first place? I consider that a serious regression!

Besides, I want to stress that, for me, I use workrave because I *need* it. And I don't notice if the breaks aren't there - that's part of the reason I need it! I suspect this may be true for most users of workrave (or similar packages). Seriously, it really got me my sore arm back - which will take several weeks to fix (again).

[Franko Burolo (fburolo)]

I've been using it from Micah's repos for almost two weeks now. It works fine. Except for a few bugs, but I guess they should be reported separately from this....

[alleykat (tib-2000)]

Sorry, I can't get it installed, I've added the repository, get this error:
E: Package 'workrave' has no installation candidate

and tried to download by terminal, also tried by tarbal, I get:
/workrave-1.9.4$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

I googled backporting, but don't understand it, is there any hope of me installing workrave?
please help

[Evan Broder (broder)]

alleykat - Please see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports for documentation on
enabling and installing backports.