Monday 10 October 2016

RE: Keep or remove software-center?

Hi Martin,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Pitt [mailto:martin.pitt@ubuntu.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 9:01 AM
> To: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
> Cc: Limonciello, Mario <Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com>
> Subject: Re: Keep or remove software-center?
>
> Barry Warsaw [2016-10-10 9:38 -0400]:
> > I'd vote for removing it as soon as possible from Zazzy Zorilla. There are a
> > couple of revdeps and revrecs and it's not worth chasing down any
> unintended
> > fallout this close to the Yakkety release.
>
> | Reverse-Recommends
> | ==================
> | * mythbuntu-desktop [powerpc] (for software-center)
>
> Not sure wher this comes from -- it's not in
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mythbuntu-dev/ubuntu-
> seeds/mythbuntu.yakkety/view/head:/desktop
> nor in the platform.yakkety nor ubuntu.yakkety seeds,
> and yet it is in ubuntu-meta's desktop-recommends-powerpc file. That
> is an obsolet file as update.cfg only has "architectures: i386 amd64",
> and thus should just be removed.
>
> I'm not sure if Mythbuntu actually wants to support powerpc still or
> not -- update.cfg and debian/control's Architecture: disagree. (CC'ing
> Mario for input).

We never actually got a good setup working for PowerPC. We wanted to,
but realistically the number of people that could benefit from a PPC media
experience is ~2.
Dropping PPC sounds fine by me.

>
> | * oneconf (for software-center)
>
> That would get removed along with software-center.
>
> | Reverse-Depends
> | ===============
> | * ti-omap4-software-channel (for software-center)
>
> This has been obsolete since after 12.04, removed ealier today.
>
> Martin
>
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