ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Martin Albisetti <argentina@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Pat McGowan <pat.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday, July 31 (tomorrow) the Wily archive will switch to the new
> toolchain using the GCC 5 compiler starting with the proposed pocket. As
> previously communicated on ubuntu-devel, this introduces a binary
> incompatibility and all archive packages are being recompiled. This means
> that most apps and scopes in the store will no longer run on Wily phone
> images that are installed from the devel-proposed channel.
>
>
> We encourage all app and scope developers to remain on the stable or
> rc-proposed channels which will of course continue to be compatible for the
> foreseeable future and are the basis for all products that are shipping to
> customers.
>
>
> We are currently benchmarking various approaches to support the transition
> to the next commercial release of Ubuntu for phones. We will work closely
> together with app and scope developers to support that transition. In the
> meantime we thank you for your patience.

I'm assuming this changes needs to be paired with:

- Dropping all frameworks as supported from that image once this lands
- Introducing a new framework

-- 
Martin