Comment 8 for bug 840292

2011/9/23 Chow Loong Jin <email address hidden>:
> On 23/09/2011 08:21, Mitsuya Shibata wrote:
>> @hyperair
>>
>> 2011/9/23 Chow Loong Jin <email address hidden>:
>>> I'd actually prefer to merge the synaptic and apturl patches together
>>> (and propagate this change to Debian, but there's no time for that).
>>
>> I think that shouldn't merge synaptic/apturl patch by two reasons.
>>
>> First, Ubuntu dropped synaptic from desktop task, but not in Debian.
>>
>> Second, apturl isn't packaged in Debian yet.
>> http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=apturl&searchon=names&suite=unstable&section=all
>>
>> That is, apturl patch is ubuntu specific, can't propagate to Debian
>> at this time. I think it is better to separate Debian specific patch
>> and Ubuntu it for next(o+1) merge.
>
> I see, you have a point there. In that case I'd actually prefer to just
> merge/amend the 02 patch in an -XubuntuY version (and keep it as Synaptic in the
> -X version) so we don't bump it to Synaptic and then bump it back to apturl. It
> just feels weird.

I agree with it feels weird.

I'm afraid if new version in debian (example 0.7.3-2), our merge work for
ubuntu (0.7.3-2ubuntu1) becomes more difficult with 02_ patch modified.

If it's needless fear (and I'm not familiar with packaging, there is high
possibility that I'm wrong), I have no disagree with merge 02_/03_ patches.

> I noticed that aptdaemon is packaged in Debian. Does aptdaemon trigger its own
> user interface for auto-installing stuff, or does the application using it have
> to create its own UI?

It seems that using aptdaemon is more nicely. But it needs to implement
progress UI with C (On the other hand, python bindings has UI widget).