On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 12:01:38AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > 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. The state of GNOME/GTK+ package management in squeeze was the same as in Ubuntu's LTS version. For wheezy, the only question is whether we want to go with the Ubuntu stack again, or go with PackageKit on our own. On the KDE side, things do not look that good AFAICT. They have an update notifier, but AFAIK not much more than that; and apparently not enough people to do more. They could go with QApt/Muon or with PackageKit, whatever they choose. > > Schedule could include: > * Upstream and Debian state of synaptic, update-*, aptdaemon, > software-center, PackageKit and related packages From what I know, all packages except for update-notifier are actively developed. > * What features we want to expose on our desktop environments (use > cases, interaction scenarios) > * Which tools to focus on to provide these features for wheezy > * Trying to envision what features we want in wheezy+1 and how to > make this happen > * Initial common hacking session to get wheezy on the right tracks > > How many of you would be interested in such a meeting? Theoretically yes, practically no, at least not before the middle of February. I'm in my first semester at university now, and in general not very travel-friendly (especially if it means travelling outside of Hesse). -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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