[SoaS] Technical Release - Sugar 0.110

[Kalpa Welivitigoda]

Hi Sam,

I see the .desktop file generation was introduced in [1]. Is the
.desktop file being used in sugar itself? I want to verify whether
there's any impact if we remove the .desktop file after installing the
activity in fedora.


[1] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/commit/535ece85c3f21dcaef9af93cdd8c4eb0061422f5


On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 8:23 PM, Kalpa Welivitigoda <callkalpa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Can we get this release for f25 as well? ATM I see that it's only for rawhide.
>
> On a different note, I saw a number of bugzilla tickets created as a
> number of sugar activity packages failed to build. As per my findings,
> it is because sugar-toolkit-gtk3 code generates a .desktop file from
> the information in the activity.info file. In doing so, it appends the
> BUILDROOT to Icon and Path properties in the .desktop file. This fails
> the check in /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot. Please find the scratch
> build [1] for reference.
>
> PR [2] makes the .desktop file creation configurable via a flag passed
> to setup.py. If we can get a release out with this fix, I think we can
> fix the current build failures. The other option is after %install, we
> can delete the .desktop file from the build.
>
> Appreciate your thoughts on this issue.
>
> [1] /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot
> [2] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/362
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Sam,
>>
>> I apologise, I never saw the release announcement for any of the dev
>> releases in this cycle nor the GA announcement. I'm not sure what
>> happened as I thought I was on the sugar-devel list. TBH I have seen
>> so little discussion I thought the cycle had been delayed or
>> something.
>>
>> Is there a summary/overview of what's changed (particularly in terms
>> of new/changed dependencies)?
>>
>> What's the plans for the next cycle so I can ensure we don't miss that
>> one too. Also if you are able, or know someone that is, to help out
>> with the packaging/updates of the packages in Fedora that would also
>> help out too. Happy to help mentor anyone interested in getting
>> actively involved in maintaining Sugar in Fedora.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Sam P. <sam at sam.today> wrote:
>>> Hi SoaS contributors,
>>>
>>> This is the latest release, and it hasn't been packaged yet for Fedora :(
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sam
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>> From: Sam P. <sam at sam.today>
>>> Date: Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 10:11 PM
>>> Subject: Technical Release - Sugar 0.110
>>> To: Sugar-dev Devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> It has been a huge cycle and there has been lots of great work done by many
>>> members of this community.  One sum of that work is the Sugar 0.110 release.
>>> Tonight I will be doing the technical side of the release - tarballs only.
>>> I'd like to take my time to properly summarize the contributions that have
>>> made this release possible; so you will have to wait for that.
>>>
>>> This includes the following components: sugar, sugar-toolkit-gtk3,
>>> sugar-toolkit, sugar-runner, sugar-datastore, sugar-artwork
>>>
>>> Please find the tarballs on download.sugarlabs.org in the usual places.
>>> This is a great time if you are fedora or another distro to pick up the
>>> changes!
>>>
>>> We also have updated developer docs, just on the off chance that somebody
>>> wants to make a sugar activity:  https://developer.sugarlabs.org/sugar3/
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sam
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>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> Kalpa Welivitigoda
> +65 82265081
> http://about.me/callkalpa



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Best Regards,

Kalpa Welivitigoda
+65 82265081
http://about.me/callkalpa