2011-12-13
Weekly Summary
Fix several bugs which caused lucid->precise or oneiric->precise upgrades to fail. Had to revert 901638 until soprano-daemon gets fixed. (pitti)
Improved uninstallability report to give proper reasons why packages are uninstallable. (pitti)
- Fixed remaining long-standing uninstallability in main. (pitti)
- poppler ABI transition/porting now fully done in main and universe. (pitti)
Dbusmenu accessible desc work finally done, with patches to our GTK2 and GTK3 packages. Still need to get a solution worked out and committed upstream, as the work done here benefits everybody/all distros so far as menu items/network manager is concerned. (TheMuso)
Started improving accessibility functionality of the Unity greeter, adding keyboard shortcuts for screen reader, high contrast, and accessing the indicator menu bar. (TheMuso)
Agenda
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Partner update
Ubuntu One
- Music store is going to focus on the music lens and web, it should land in mid January. This will replace the rhythmbox and bansheee plugins.
DX Systems
Many branches that need review, I have asked them to plan a review day to get the list under control and get some bug fixes out.
Unity
Software Center
Kubuntu
X.org
Began conversion of failsafe-x from bash/zenity to python. Before and after: http://www.bryceharrington.org/files/new-failsafe-x.png
- Fixed bug in -intel driver causing a mis-drawn welcome screen due to an error in UXA clipping logic. (LP: #901959)
Discovered that nouveau can't drive the DisplayPort output of this Lenovo T420s; upstream support is not yet implemented. Traced the nvidia driver enabling the DP output; attached to upstream bug
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IRC log Eastern edition
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