Am Donnerstag, den 24.11.2011, 00:01 +0100 schrieb Josselin Mouette: > Hi, > > given the poor state of our desktop package management tools in squeeze, > and the number of unknown variables when it comes to wheezy, I’d like to > propose to gather around in a dedicated Debian sprint on this topic. We > should be able to get funding from the project for such a task.
Hello Josselin, Sounds like a good idea. I would like to take part in such a meeting - depending on my available time (I am working in shifts). Michael, Julian and me already already started preparing updates to the software-center/aptdaemon stack. The hardcoded Canonical parts in software-center have been made optionally. As posted by Michael Canonical offers to host ratings and reviews for Debian packages. The server side is under AGPL3 but requires a launchpad account to make a comment or rating [1]. Would need some investigation if this can be hosted on a Debian server with a more general OAuth authentication. At the AppStream sprint in spring OCS open collaboration services [1] was chosen as the target API for the non-Canonical software-center ratings and review system. But the server side doesn't look very good currently: midgard2 doesn't support the PHP middleware yet. Working opensocial implementation can be found at formeego [3] or at opendesktop [4]. Furthermore aptdaemon now also provides the PackageKit system D-Bus interface by reusing the old PackageKit apt backend and mapping aptdaemon transactions. You can already use gpk-application and gpk-update-viewer with aptdaemon. [5] So you will very likely see a wider adoption of the PackageKit api in Ubuntu. Gnome-codec-installer was replaced by session-installer in Ubuntu now since session-installer was ported to GTK3 and provides some unique features like handling of only partially provided codecs and promoting the codecs which are supported best. Cheers, Sebastian [1] http://reviews.ubuntu.com [2] http://socialdesktop.org/ocs/ [3] http://apps.formeego.org/applications/ [4] http://www.opendesktop.org [5] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/packagekit/2011-November/006456.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1322126352.20787.29.camel@klapprechner
