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[Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18 September 2013 09:31, Loïc Minier <loic.minier@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>       Hi!
>
> Click packages uploaded to appstore currently declare a dependency on
> ubuntu-sdk-13.10, but we haven't defined this ubuntu-sdk-13.10 framework
> yet!
>
> This should be as backwards-compatible as possible (at least up to
> 12.04) so that apps in the appstore don't need to be ported to a new
> API/ABI before it's out in a stable release.
>
> Currently we have an ubuntu-sdk package, but no ubuntu-sdk-runtime or
> ubuntu-touch-runtime or whatever we want it; the seed is below, would
> people please reply commenting on APIs/ABIs which should/must be in
> ubuntu-sdk-13.10, with a thought on stability of the interface?
>
> Also, do we want multiple frameworks, notably for webapps or for cordova?
>

I specifically wanted to split ubuntu-sdk into three packages:
* development tools & docs (e.g. qtcreator, qtcreator plugins,
documentation etc)
* runtime libraries (e.g. actual qt5 runtime libraries, qml plugins etc. only)
* dev libraries (e.g. all the -dev packages for the runtime libraries)

And the runtime libraries must be seeded in the ubuntu-touch seed, as
during this cycle we did see sometimes where some -dev package was
part of ubuntu-sdk package, yet the runtime library was not available
on the the ubuntu-touch images.

Similarly, when creating cross-compilation chroots, one doesn't need
QtCreator / docs / examples etc. just the dev packages.

I was not sure about the names for those packages. but is it ok if I
propose a suggested seed structure change and split?

Also see:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-touch-meta/+bug/1221918

Regards,

Dmitrijs.