Wanted: Port of release-upgrader to aptdaemon

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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release-upgrader is the part of Update Manager that upgrades Ubuntu
from one version to the next.

Currently it uses apt directly. This has several drawbacks. For
example, it uses the ugly gksudo prompt instead of the nicer PolicyKit
one. And if you happen to be installing or removing an application in
Ubuntu Software Center, instead of waiting for that to finish, the
upgrade just fails.

These problems can be fixed by porting release-upgrader to use
Aptdaemon, like Ubuntu Software Center and the rest of Update Manager
do. (It would also make sense to split it off into a separate codebase
from update-manager.)

If anyone would like to tackle this, here's the code:
<https://code.launchpad.net/update-manager>

And here's the Aptdaemon reference:
<http://packages.python.org/aptdaemon/>

If you need help, you can find Michael Vogt (mvo) in the #ubuntu-devel
IRC channel.

Thanks!

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