Comment 5 for bug 277770

Debian do not want to provide the sugar-activities metapackage. In the hardy packages, this is produced by the sugar sourcepackage.

My intention is to add the metapackage back to debian's sugar package once we have it synced - unfortunately it is a deviation but a very minor one.

In the long term, we will have more activities (apps) packaged in Debian (and some are only in Ubuntu but we will submit them to Debian) and then having a metapackage that installs *everything* will no longer be appropriate, but upstream is producing a set of activities which are developed in tight coordination with the Sugar platform, called Fructose, whereas other activities are community-developed on their own schedule (and code-named Honey). This is reflected on our https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SugarTeam/Packages page. So in intrepid+1 we may replace sugar-activities with sugar-fructose as a metapackage which pulls in the "upstream blessed" activities.

For now I would prefer to continue using sugar-activities as a patch carried over from the hardy packages - but we will continue working with Debian to feed our patches and suggestions back to them and minimise the delta.

Morgan