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[Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak <lukasz.zemczak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Sergio!

W dniu 18.03.2016 o 20:30, Sergio Schvezov pisze:
> El 18/03/16 a las 16:23, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak escribió:
>> Hello everyone!
>>
>> This is an announcement targeted for Ubuntu Touch application developers.
>>
>> As you all know we currently provide multiple frameworks with our stable
>> images, most of which are old and actually come even from early
>> development times. We decided to do some cleaning up, so we want to
>> start deprecating no longer supported frameworks.
>>
>> We'll start off with the oldest and less used frameworks - most are
>> those with the -dev suffix, meaning never really intended for stable
>> releases.
>> First ones that we want to get rid of in the nearest updates are:
>>
>>  * ubuntu-sdk-13.10
>>  * ubuntu-sdk-14.04-dev1
>>  * ubuntu-sdk-14.04-html-dev1
>>  * ubuntu-sdk-14.04-papi-dev1
>>  * ubuntu-sdk-14.04-qml-dev1
>>  * ubuntu-sdk-14.10-dev2
>>  * ubuntu-sdk-14.10-html-dev2
>>  * ubuntu-sdk-14.10-qml-dev2
>>  * ubuntu-sdk-14.10-qml-dev3
>>
>> Statistics from the store (thanks to Alan Pope) show that we currently
>> have 185 apps/scopes using the aforementioned frameworks. If you're  an
>> application developer and one of your apps/scopes still depends on one
>> of these frameworks, please re-base it on the latest available in the
>> stable channel and re-upload to the store.
>>
>> Bug tracking the whole process:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1555782
>>
>> We will be performing the removal somewhere mid-next-week.
> 
> What will happen to the clicks I currently have installed that depend on
> these? Will they be automatically removed or are they already broken?
> 

>From what I know, in practice those apps will disappear from the apps
scope, so won't really be usable (even though they should in theory). We
hope most dependent applications will migrate as soon as possible.

Cheers,

-- 
Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak
 Foundations Team
 lukasz.zemczak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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