On 2 April 2013 08:11, Didier Roche <didro...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Le 01/04/2013 23:21, Scott Kitterman a écrit : > >> On Monday, April 01, 2013 10:15:41 PM Colin Law wrote: >>> >>> On 1 April 2013 22:11, Jordon Bedwell <jor...@envygeeks.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Just out of interest does anyone know why, on Raring, I keep getting >>>>> updates for unity-2d packages when unity-2d is, I thought, dead and >>>>> buried? >>>> >>>> Seems odd unless you are less than 12.10 but there could always be a >>>> deprecation period. >>> >>> I am on Raring. >>> $ apt-cache policy unity-2d >>> unity-2d: >>> Installed: 6.12.0daily13.04.01-0ubuntu1 >>> Candidate: 6.12.0daily13.04.01-0ubuntu1 >>> Version table: >>> *** 6.12.0daily13.04.01-0ubuntu1 0 >>> 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/universe i386 >>> Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status >>> >>> I do notice that they are all (unity-2d, unity-2d-spread and so on) >>> only a few kB each, perhaps they are just placeholders to satisfy >>> dependencies that have not been cleaned up yet. On the other hand I >>> am getting updates to them every few days which seems odd. >> >> They are transitional packages that depend on unity to smooth updates. >> Every >> time unity gets updated, they get updated too. >> >> Scott K >> > As Scott told, they are from Unity sources. > > We need to keep them until next LTS as we support LTS to LTS upgrade so that > people who only had unity-2d installed will get transitioned to the new > Unity, even if they removed it in the previous LTS, so that they don't end > up in an empty session upon upgrade.
OK, that makes sense. Many thanks. Colin -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
