BugSquad/Upstreaming bugs: Difference between revisions

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* 307225 sugar '''ruler''' works/should be packaged, screen resolution fix

* 460111 sugar '''browse''' fails -- libxul.so: No such file or directory. Browse-122 ImportError: No module named hulahop

Browse downloads .xo bundles to the Journal, but Firefox does not. In that case, copy the bundle file to a USB drive. You can copy it to the Journal from there. Click to install and start the activity.

* 623726 '''read''' fails to start--Starts now, but does not open file.

* 731133 '''TurtleArt''' cannot start due to missing files.--Version 108 installs and runs. Please package.

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* 788822 Sugar '''SliderPuzzle''' activity dependent on missing Abiword.

* 788832 '''Firefox''' in Sugar hangs on exit

[[User:Sascha silbe|Sascha Silbe]]

I am sad to announce that we are dropping Ubuntu support for

sugar-jhbuild. Karmic Koala (9.10), the last version of Ubuntu that

shipped all packages required to use Sugar (including all Fructose

activities), has went end-of-life on 2011-05-01.

Apart from a bug in the Ubuntu version of Xephyr that prevents

sugar-emulator from working out of the box [1], all recent Ubuntu

versions lack python-xpcom [2], a crucial package for Browse. The latter

issue can only be worked around by building all browser engine packages

(xulrunner, python-xpcom, hulahop) in sugar-jhbuild. We (that is, I)

lack the time to go this route again. At least in the past, Mozilla had

a bad record for security updates: most of the time, the required

patches needed to be hand-picked by downstream (in this case us) from

their VCS repository. This is not only error-prone, but also rather

time-consuming. AFAICT this hasn't changed a bit.

I can only hope that Surf grows to be a full replacement for Browse.

Once that happens and all required packages for Surf (probably going to

include some bleeding edge ones) enter the most recent Ubuntu version,

we can start supporting Ubuntu again.

I will keep the Ubuntu configuration files in the sugar-jhbuild

repository. Use them at your own risk. Feel free to send patches, but

please don't file bug reports about anything Ubuntu-specific.

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 * 307225 sugar '''ruler''' works/should be packaged, screen resolution fix
 * 460111 sugar '''browse''' fails -- libxul.so: No such file or directory. Browse-122 ImportError: No module named hulahop
+Browse downloads .xo bundles to the Journal, but Firefox does not. In that case, copy the bundle file to a USB drive. You can copy it to the Journal from there. Click to install and start the activity.
 * 623726 '''read''' fails to start--Starts now, but does not open file.
 * 731133 '''TurtleArt''' cannot start due to missing files.--Version 108 installs and runs. Please package.
@@ Line 118: / Line 121: @@
 * 788822 Sugar '''SliderPuzzle''' activity dependent on missing Abiword.
 * 788832 '''Firefox''' in Sugar hangs on exit
+[[User:Sascha silbe|Sascha Silbe]]
+I am sad to announce that we are dropping Ubuntu support for
+sugar-jhbuild. Karmic Koala (9.10), the last version of Ubuntu that
+shipped all packages required to use Sugar (including all Fructose
+activities), has went end-of-life on 2011-05-01.
+Apart from a bug in the Ubuntu version of Xephyr that prevents
+sugar-emulator from working out of the box [1], all recent Ubuntu
+versions lack python-xpcom [2], a crucial package for Browse. The latter
+issue can only be worked around by building all browser engine packages
+(xulrunner, python-xpcom, hulahop) in sugar-jhbuild. We (that is, I)
+lack the time to go this route again. At least in the past, Mozilla had
+a bad record for security updates: most of the time, the required
+patches needed to be hand-picked by downstream (in this case us) from
+their VCS repository. This is not only error-prone, but also rather
+time-consuming. AFAICT this hasn't changed a bit.
+I can only hope that Surf grows to be a full replacement for Browse.
+Once that happens and all required packages for Surf (probably going to
+include some bleeding edge ones) enter the most recent Ubuntu version,
+we can start supporting Ubuntu again.
+I will keep the Ubuntu configuration files in the sugar-jhbuild
+repository. Use them at your own risk. Feel free to send patches, but
+please don't file bug reports about anything Ubuntu-specific.