** Description changed: [Impact] Snap development using Mir has been using the "stable phone overlay" PPA which is both inconvenient and a legacy of the cancelled Unity8 project. It would greatly simplify things if Mir were updated in the Xenial archive. [Test Case] Build a Mir client snap (e.g. lp:~albaguirre/+snap/mir-client-demos) against "Primary Ubuntu Archive" and deploy as described in https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/guides/mir-snaps/ Expected: the client apps start and are visible on screen Actual: the client don't apps start and are not visible on screen [Regression Potential] Mir has two categories of dependent project: - 1 packages related to Unity8 (and unity-system-compositor) + 1 Unity8 and unity-system-compositor "server" packages 2 toolkits and other "clients" of Mir - We should remove the first category to avoid regressions as it is not - helpful to carry these in the LTS. + "Server" packages from the archive will stop working in the LTS as they + will continue using the earlier libmirserver.so.38 (from Mir 0.21) which + doesn't work with the libmirclient.so.9 from Mir 0.26. This is + unimportant as these packages were provided as an "early experience", + not for serious use. - The second category is dependent only on libmirclient which is ABI - stable. - - The principle type of regression would be FTBFS where APIs have been - deprecated. I've proposed a 0.26.3 release where these deprecations are - disabled for 16.04. + "Client" packages are dependent only on libmirclient.so.9 which is ABI + stable. The principle type of regression would be FTBFS where APIs have + been deprecated in 0.26. The linked 0.26.3 release has these + deprecations disabled for 16.04. notes: A recursive search or rdependencies identifies the following packages in category 1: camera-app-autopilot gallery-app-autopilot indicator-network-autopilot indicators-client qtdeclarative5-qtmir-plugin qtmir-android qtmir-desktop qtmir-tests ubuntu-desktop-mir ubuntu-experience-tests ubuntu-pocket-desktop ubuntu-push-autopilot ubuntu-touch ubuntu-touch-session unity8 unity8-autopilot unity8-desktop-session-mir unity-scope-click-autopilot unity-system-compositor unity-system-compositor-autopilot + + Anyone wanting these packages should switch to the "unity8-desktop- + session" preview package in 17.04 where they are far more functional.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to mir in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1685186 Title: Mir needs to be updated in 16.04 and the dependency tree trimmed Status in mir package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: [Impact] Snap development using Mir has been using the "stable phone overlay" PPA which is both inconvenient and a legacy of the cancelled Unity8 project. It would greatly simplify things if Mir were updated in the Xenial archive. [Test Case] Build a Mir client snap (e.g. lp:~albaguirre/+snap/mir-client-demos) against "Primary Ubuntu Archive" and deploy as described in https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/guides/mir-snaps/ Expected: the client apps start and are visible on screen Actual: the client don't apps start and are not visible on screen [Regression Potential] Mir has two categories of dependent project: 1 Unity8 and unity-system-compositor "server" packages 2 toolkits and other "clients" of Mir "Server" packages from the archive will stop working in the LTS as they will continue using the earlier libmirserver.so.38 (from Mir 0.21) which doesn't work with the libmirclient.so.9 from Mir 0.26. This is unimportant as these packages were provided as an "early experience", not for serious use. "Client" packages are dependent only on libmirclient.so.9 which is ABI stable. The principle type of regression would be FTBFS where APIs have been deprecated in 0.26. The linked 0.26.3 release has these deprecations disabled for 16.04. notes: A recursive search or rdependencies identifies the following packages in category 1: camera-app-autopilot gallery-app-autopilot indicator-network-autopilot indicators-client qtdeclarative5-qtmir-plugin qtmir-android qtmir-desktop qtmir-tests ubuntu-desktop-mir ubuntu-experience-tests ubuntu-pocket-desktop ubuntu-push-autopilot ubuntu-touch ubuntu-touch-session unity8 unity8-autopilot unity8-desktop-session-mir unity-scope-click-autopilot unity-system-compositor unity-system-compositor-autopilot Anyone wanting these packages should switch to the "unity8-desktop- session" preview package in 17.04 where they are far more functional. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mir/+bug/1685186/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
