[FFe] standing freeze exception for Ubuntu Touch-specific packages

Where do we stand on this? I'm personally OK with it except for Qt5. Those packages aren't touch specific.

Hi Scott,

> Where do we stand on this? I'm personally OK with it except for Qt5.
> Those packages aren't touch specific.

So I initially thought this was a reference to Kubuntu which is not using Qt5 today, and therefore IMHO does not justify special treatment of the package in saucy merely because Kubuntu will use it in the future. However, on closer inspection I see that qt5 is actually in the *Ubuntu* desktop image already, in which case this is a perfectly reasonable restriction.

I'll drop qt5 from the list in the bug description - if qt5 needs an FFe that should be handled separately - and take your above comment as confirmation of the standing FFe for the rest of the packages.

Ah, I see that actually only a few of the qt*-opensource-src packages wound up in the list, and this did not include the core packages. So those are Touch-specific in practice right now, but they're also not likely to see FF-breaking updates unless something *else* in the qt5 stack is also being updated, so I think there are no objections to striking them from the list.

- indicator-battery
- indicator-time
+ indicator-power
+ indicator-datetime

i-battery and i-time were the demoware packages -- the FFe request should be for i-power and i-datetime.

unity-greeter-session-broadcast would need FFe as well, to be added in the daily-release 'mir' stack.

ACK comment 4 & 5

According to Ted, url-dispatcher is also a new Touch-specific component that should be added to this list. Iain, any objections?

And the 'chewie' package is obsolete (possibly was never in the Ubuntu archive at all). Dropping it from the list.

looking at bug #1215980, it appears that indicator-power and indicator-datetime are in fact converged indicators shared in common with the desktop, so would not be covered by the scope of this FFe. Dropping them from the list.

On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 19:23 +0000, Steve Langasek wrote:

> looking at bug #1215980, it appears that indicator-power and indicator-
> datetime are in fact converged indicators shared in common with the
> desktop, so would not be covered by the scope of this FFe. Dropping
> them from the list.

The ones that should be on this list are indicator-location and
indicator-network who are not used on the desktop but on the phone
today. We hope to bring them to the desktop when they get complete
enough to cover all the desktop use-cases as well. But that's not going
to happen in the 13.10 timeframe.

Adding mediascanner and unity-scope-mediascanner packages to FFe, basically moving those from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-scope-home/+bug/1215397 as those packages are only relevant for touch.

The Music app for touch is going to use the same mediascanner service as unity-scope-mediascanner, via QML bindings. These QML bindings are provided by the nemo-qml-plugin-grilo-qt5 package in the core apps PPA, to which we'll be switching next week.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-touch-coreapps-drivers/+archive/daily/+packages?field.name_filter=grilo&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=

I removed lxc from the list since it never should have been on it.

It's been seeded by default in Edubuntu for multiple releases and it's part of the supported seed for Ubuntu Server.

The only post-FF feature change for LXC was the recent upload of 1.0~alpha1 which got a separately approved FFe and I'd want any further change (not that I'm planning any) to go through release-team review.

Since I was looking at this anyway, I ran a quick seeded-in-ubuntu test on the current list.

This was mostly done using "for pkg in $(cat list); do seeded-in-ubuntu $pkg | grep "^ " | grep -v ubuntu-touch -q && echo $pkg; done" where "list" is the list in the bug description. Then ignoring any complaint about non-existing packages and re-checking all entries by hand to ignore false positives (-dbg files, experimental images that are safe to ignore, ...)

After kicking out false-positives, the following probably need extra discussion:
 - qt-gstreamer (multiple binaries seeded by kubuntu)
 - tinyxml (multiple binaries seeded by kubuntu)
 - schroedinger (multiple binaries seeded by kubuntu, lubuntu and ubuntu)
 - bridge-utils (seeded in edubuntu and part of ubuntu-server)
 - cgroup-lite (seeded in edubuntu and part of ubuntu-server)
 - gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg (multiple binaries seeded by kubuntu)
 - libav (multiple binaries seeded by kubuntu, lubuntu, ubuntu and ubuntustudio)
 - libgsm (one binary seeded by lubuntu)
 - libva (one binary seeded by lubuntu)
 - libhybris (multiple binaries seeded by edubuntu, kubuntu, lubuntu and ubuntu)

As one of the usual uploaders for bridge-utils and cgroup-lite, I'll kick them out of the list in the description since I don't want anyone doing feature upload of those without having a serious discussion with the release team.

Note that the list above is probably inaccurate (missing entries) as for some reason Edubuntu appears to be seeding most of the ubuntu-touch stuff at the moment (not sure why), so I had to clear a lot of those by hand and probably missed a few in the process.

To enable touch apps to create infographic data more easily, a declarative QML API has been added to libusermetrics (https://code.launchpad.net/~amanzi-team/libusermetrics/metrics-qml-bindings/+merge/187001). This has been merged to trunk.

Can this please be added to the feature freeze exception?

It introduces a new binary package "qtdeclarative5-usermetrics0.1", containing the bindings.

It's probably worth mentioning that that libusermetrics is _touch_only_ at present.

Pete,

libusermetrics is already on the package list for this FFe. So any new binary packages that need to be added are covered by the existing exception.

We would like to get a FFe for a new package called (currently) thumbnailer. It is a very simple library that generates and caches thumbnails for image, video and audio files. It is meant to be used by the dash to display preview results. Apps written using the SDK can also utilize this functionality.

This change is for touch only, it has no effect on 13/10 desktop.

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:25:46AM -0000, Jussi Pakkanen wrote:
> We would like to get a FFe for a new package called (currently)
> thumbnailer. It is a very simple library that generates and caches
> thumbnails for image, video and audio files. It is meant to be used by
> the dash to display preview results. Apps written using the SDK can also
> utilize this functionality.

> This change is for touch only, it has no effect on 13/10 desktop.

As this would be a new package used only on touch, I believe it's implicitly
covered by this FFe.

It just needs an archive admin to volunteer for New.

Discussed in #ubuntu-release, agreed to add url-dispatcher with the additional restriction that any ABI changes require an FFE due to dependencies of converged indicators.