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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak
<lukasz.zemczak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Less than a week’s notice seems a bit short. Can we give app devs a
longer grace period?