[needs-packaging] please include teatime-unity in Ubuntu

I tried submitting it using this method:
http://developer.ubuntu.com/publish/apps/get-started/

but the package was sitting there for about 2 years with a "pending review" status. When I pulled the request last week it seemed that this process is dead by now.

However if you have any other ideas I would be glad to try.

I am not aware of how that process does or doesn't work.

I compiled your package and got a few errors that should be fixed before asking for inclusion in Ubuntu. It would also be good if you published a tarball of your upstream code somewhere (exclude the debian directory from it).

E: teatime-unity source: missing-build-dependency-for-dh-addon python2 => python | python-all | python-dev | python-all-dev
W: teatime-unity source: ancient-standards-version 3.9.3 (current is 3.9.6)
W: teatime-unity: latest-debian-changelog-entry-changed-to-native
E: teatime-unity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/extras.ubuntu.com/
E: teatime-unity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/extras.ubuntu.com/teatime/
E: teatime-unity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/extras.ubuntu.com/teatime/locale/
E: teatime-unity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/extras.ubuntu.com/teatime/locale/ca/
E: teatime-unity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/extras.ubuntu.com/teatime/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/
E: teatime-unity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/extras.ubuntu.com/teatime/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/teatime.mo
[...]
E: teatime-unity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/extras.ubuntu.com/teatime/teatime.py
E: teatime-unity: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/extras.ubuntu.com/teatime/window.ui
I: teatime-unity: package-contains-empty-directory usr/bin/
I: teatime-unity: desktop-entry-contains-encoding-key usr/share/applications/teatime.desktop:2 Encoding
I: teatime-unity: desktop-entry-lacks-keywords-entry usr/share/applications/teatime.desktop

Ask me if any of those are unclear to you or if you want advice on how to achieve certain packaging goals.

meh.. moved it to /opt precisely because I wanted to get it into ubuntu:
http://developer.ubuntu.com/publish/apps/other-forms-of-submitting-apps/my-apps-packages/
but as it is self-contained now moving is quite easy..

also fixed the rest of the errors in trunk.

Regarding the tarball: do you think I can get away without it by making teatime a native package? It would be a PITA to create one because teatime is actually only meant to run on Ubuntu..

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Sorry for the delay in response.

Yes, I guess you could make it a native package. The question you should ask yourself isn't whether this is only available for Ubuntu, though, but if you really want to upload the WHOLE source code every time you make a change, even if only to the packaging. The separation of upstream code and packaging code is very helpful. Native packages have their place when there is essentially no upstream code and the core of the package is in the packaging code (the stuff under debian/)

any progress? do you need any kind of help?

I went the native package route as teatime is only meant to run on ubuntu and in total is only a few KB large. Furthermore I fixed all the linter issues. So I think it is ready from my side.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Does it still make sense to push for inclusion in Ubuntu with unity being discountinued? Sorry for the bad news.

@Rolf, @Pavel

Yes, it still makes sense.

1) Unity -7 is still maintained and will be maintained beyond 18.04.

2) Ubuntu will use same quicklist api for their new dock in gnome-shell. So it will work in gnome-shell too.

3) Indicators and unity api and are being used by mate, kde solus and others.

4) I would recommend to use indicator-messages (Like evolution alarms does), that way other environments can use it too. (bug #1719066).