AppStream, Discover and metadata

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Scarlett Clark
<scarlett.gately.clark at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I have moved it to a top priority on my KDE hat to-do list.
> With my Kubuntu hat on I support AppStream+(PK|QApt) and will drum up any
> testers needed and report back.
> Cheers,
> Scarlett
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Matthias Klumpp <matthias at tenstral.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> 2015-11-10 17:45 GMT+01:00 Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org>:
>> > [...]
>> >
>> > Feedback is very welcome.
>>
>> As AppStream upstream and PackageKit developer, I obviously approve
>> this idea :-)
>> The aptcc backend of PackageKit has a few shortcomings (like not being
>> able to process read queries in parallel), due to missing
>> multithreading support, but the APT team in Debian is working on
>> fixing APT, and I am certain that the aptcc backend will get some help
>> from Canonical - parallel-processing backends are a huge performance
>> win, and Ubuntu will definitively want that for GNOME-Software.
>>
>> Adopting AppStream should be very painless, as long as the packagers
>> fix their metadata (for KDE, Scarlett is adding some validator code to
>> the CI, so we should be safe soon).
>> So AppStream+(PK|QApt) should definitively be the way to go :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>     Matthias

Thanks, but note that the actual question is whether PackageKit is an
acceptable replacement to QApt or I should make the effort to port the
QApt backend to AppStream.

Aleix