[needs-packaging] Piklab

[Nicolas Hadacek]

Release 0.16.0 of Piklab supports KDE4 so it can be re-added to Ubuntu.

Homepage: http://piklab.org (This page is now gone and piklab.org domain has a "for sale" sign on it as of November 2014)
Sources: https://sourceforge.net/projects/piklab/files/piklab/
License: GPL v2

Note that the Piklab package was removed since it supported only KDE3.

(edited to update homepage)

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

Thank you for taking the time to make Ubuntu better.
I asked to the original Debian maintainer if he is going to package also this version.
Now I'll wait some time for his reply, and (in case) I'll ask for packaging.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[andso (andso)]

this great IDE always needs a packaging

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Rob Bruce (r-bruce)]

I looked through the Debian repositories yesterday for a package based on 0.16.0 or later and didn't find one (a year after Mattia Rizzolo made his inquiry of the maintainer).

Out of curiosity, I did dl the latest released source (0.16.2) from the piklab project on Sourceforge, and it does compile on Kubuntu 12.04. Seems to run, too, but I haven't tested it extensively at all. Unfortunately, I know absolutely zero about packaging an application.

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

I pinged the ex-debian maintainer a year ago, but I don't received any answer.
Now I've just opened a Debian bug and re-email the maintainer.

For reference: piklab is available in squeeze (old-stable now) http://packages.debian.org/source/oldstable/piklab where KDE 3 is available, and was removed from unstable 2011/03/17 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=618600)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Rob Bruce (r-bruce)]

I edited the description to reflect the fact that the website for the project, piklab.org, is gone and the domain is for sale.