Install indicator-sync by default

[dobey]

The sync menu indicator needs to be installed by default, so that other applications on the default install can appropriately include support for the service and include a Recommends: on the API or indicator packages as needed.

Mail archive links:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2012-September/016895.html

[Kate Stewart (kate.stewart)]

Requesting a UIFE/FFE exception this late needs a lot more justification than has been given in the bug description.
In future, please follow the directions and provide the information requested in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess
and surface these sorts of change requests much earlier in the cycle.

Marking this WONT FIX for Q for now, justification provided so far is not adequate.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Ubuntu One is going to be a user of the API provided by indicator-sync; it's already building against libsync-menu1, which is provided by the indicator-sync source, but by itself this does not mean that anything will "appear" on the desktop to track syncing processes -- the indicator-sync binary package, which will provide the actual indicator, is needed for that.

indicator-sync will provide a location (a new indicator) that will be used by processes doing some form of network synchronization (such as Ubuntu One, Dropbox, etc.) in the form of a menu where the progress of such processes can be followed.

The binary packages provided by indicator-sync (source) are already available in Ubuntu and are already in the main component, this is strictly a change to make sure the indicator is available in the Unity session; the proposed method for this is to add it, like the other indicators, as a Recommends to the unity binary package.

[Kate Stewart (kate.stewart)]

I understand and support the desire to get this included in 12.10, but we're in the stage right now where we can't afford to introduce regressions.

What testing has been done on this? on which platforms?
How do we know it won't cause a regression?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We don't need an UIFe/FFe for raring, updating the title and submitting a merge request to add it to the unity recommends (it's already in main, we just need something to pull it in)

Rodney: feel free to make ubuntuone-client recommends it as well

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntuone-client - 4.1.90-0ubuntu2

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ubuntuone-client (4.1.90-0ubuntu2) raring; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    - Remove gir1.2-indicate dependencies. (LP: #1112544)
    - Add indicator-sync to recommends. (LP: #1053482)
    - Add python3-dirspec to dependencies. (LP: #1098128)
  * debian/patches/00_apport_py3.patch:
    - Cherry pick patch from trunk to allow apport hook to work with
      Python 3 versions of apport. (LP: #1098128)
 -- Rodney Dawes <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:27:33 -0500

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 6.12.0daily13.02.04.1-0ubuntu1

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unity (6.12.0daily13.02.04.1-0ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    - recommends indicator-sync so it gets installed by default
      (lp: #1053482)
    - recommends indicator-bluetooth as well (lp: #1111314)

  [ Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak ]
  * debian/control:
    - bump compiz build-dep due to the last ABI break

  [ Brandon Schaefer ]
  * [regression] Clicking on the indicators when the Dash is open no
    longer closes the Dash. (LP: #1109150)
  * [staging][raring] Dash Maximise/Restore button depends on the
    launcher icon size. (LP: #1101310)

  [ Romain Perier ]
  * The Dash closes when trying to switch to the Command lens (Alt+F2)
    (LP: #1019457)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * Launcher can have smaller size on monitor resolution change (LP:
    #1105382)
  * Dragging down a window from the panel on an external monitor,
    restores it at wrong offset (LP: #1104043)
  * [regression] Alt+Tab/Alt+grave brings other window to the front but
    loses focus entirely. (LP: #1111620)
  * Quicklist items need a way to be ellipsized (LP: #1111471)

  [ Charles Kerr <email address hidden>, Andrea Azzarone ]
  * the GObject subclasses in tests/ don't dispose() properly (LP:
    #986875)

  [ Nicolas d'Offay ]
  * Speed up dash blur (LP: #1102410)

  [ Manuel de la Pena ]
  * API changes to FindKeyFocusArea in the Preview class stops more
    complicated previous fom setting the correct focus (LP: #1102387)

  [ MC Return ]
  * Wrong description in Dconf key
    com.canonical.unity.launcher.favorites (LP: #1112560)
  * Keyboard shortcut overlay says Ctrl+Super+Down "minimises" the
    current window, but it doesn't (LP: #966099)

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * unmounting any gvfs-mounted device from unity menu crashes compiz
    (LP: #1111389)
  * compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in async_wrapper_callback() from
    g_simple_async_result_complete() from
    _g_simple_async_result_complete_with_cancellable() from
    unmount_reply() (LP: #1102926)

  [ Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak ]
  * SwitcherControllerImpl autopilot test failures in unity -
    6.12.0daily13.01.29.2-0ubuntu1 (LP: #1109192)

  [ Automatic PS uploader ]
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 3117
 -- Automatic PS uploader <email address hidden> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:59:13 +0000