Comment 12 for bug 840292

On 24/09/2011 01:59, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
> On 23/09/2011 14:32, Martin Pitt wrote:
>> Chow Loong Jin [2011-09-23 3:53 -0000]:
>>> Ooh, it does? Maybe we could add a Python wrapper script thing that uses
>>> python-aptdaemon to implement the stuff needed. Then we can sync this over.
>>
>> Yes, python-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets is rather easy to use (see the demo
>> script in the aptdaemon source). Alternatively you can also talk to
>> the PackageKit session D-BUS interface. aptdaemon implements this, so
>> it will work out of the box on other distributions as well (and thus
>> is mostly upstreamable except for the package name, which could be a
>> configure option). In Debian/Ubuntu we could then set the dependency
>> as "sessioninstaller | packagekit".
>
> Hmm, packagekit sounds like a good long term plan. Does it have a proper UI of
> its own, or would I need to implement a UI for it?
>

For the time being, though, I think apturl will suffice at least for the Oneiric
cycle, so please upload the fix.

The branch seems to have patches already applied, and even checked in .pc files,
which I'm not sure is supposed to be there. Just a head's up, for anyone sponsoring.

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin