[MERGE][#248153] Add autopack RPC

[Martin Pool]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Andrew Bennetts
<andrew.bennetts at canonical.com> wrote:
> Personally, I'm inclined to agree with Robert.  It only saves a single
> round trip at best, and it does depend a bit more on internals than I
> feel totally happy with.
>
> If for now we *don't* return the pack-names data from the RPC it doesn't
> stop us from extending the return value to include it in a later
> version.

Right, and it is a bit of an abstraction inversion, as I (vaguely)
implied earlier.  It's ok with me to leave it out, but I believe we do
need an updated patch anyhow that fixes the test failure.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>