Bug#468132: ITP: packagekit -- a distribution neutral, interface to manage software packages

[Matthias Klumpp <matthias@nlinux.org>]

owner 468132 !

> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 04:18:31PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
>> Hmm... Okay. I'll checkout if I can maintain it and if it gets accepted
>> for Sid. (Probably not during freeze, but later)
>> Thanks for the response!
> 
> If you need some assistance on the integration, feel free to contact
> me.
Okay, I'll do it :)

> On the backend side I would recommend to stay with the Python based
> apt backend by default. Kubuntu recently switched to aptcc but this is
> also a little bit problematic. (I am biased here since I am the author
> of the apt backend :)
> 
> To add the debconf support to the apt backend are only a few lines of
> code.
What are the problems with the APTcc backend? (I use it here and only
noticed most tasks are a lot faster)

Regards
  Matthias