Il giorno sab 8 ago 2020 alle ore 16:51 Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> ha scritto: > > On 8/8/20 8:48 AM, Harald Sitter wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 3:14 AM Mitch Golden <mgol...@mitchgolden.com> wrote: > >> > >> Is there something broken about muon that would require it to be sunset? > > > > We don't know because nobody triages bugs, let alone works on them, > > hence my original question where bug mails should go ;) > > I suppose we should set up a new mailing list and encourage people who > care to subscribe to it. >
Muon is certainly not actively developed anymore. I would say the same of libqapt, software-properties(-qt) and apt-xapian-index (Muon depends on them). Being distro-specific may not be helping. Maybe having a list dedicated to them as you suggest would gather interested people and coordinate some effort. Releasing with Applications would also help a lot. On the other hand, I would say the target user group for Muon could be served by aptitude. Muon is a sort of clone of aptitude with limited features (think e.g. dependency navigation, multiple tabs). For desktop users we have Discover. When Muon was orphaned [1] it was already proposed to move it to unmaintained. Muon is still usable at present, safe for some quirks (e.g. search crashing in some circumstances). The more recent bug reports are related to software-properties, which is a Ubuntu thing. The Qt frontend still expects to be run as root (kdesu or pkexec). Afaik it will break on Wayland. There is a branch for porting to the existing dbus service, but then new features got added to master and the branch lagged behind. Maintaining Muon would require some activity on apt-xapian-index (completing port to python3) and software-properties. Moreover, if Julian hadn't updated libqapt to apt 1.9 himself, I for one certainly wouldn't have been able to. To sum it up, it would make me sad to see it go away, but I'm not against sunsetting. Carlo [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2015-November/010082.html -- kubuntu-devel mailing list kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
