[Bug 933909] Re: Sync packagekit 0.7.2-4 (main) from Debian testing (main)

[Martin Pitt]

Matthias Klumpp [2012-02-18  1:12 -0000]:
> Okay, strange... It should really not pull in packagekit...

At that time PackageKit got on the daily CDs, and germinate said the
reason was libpackagekit-glib. I think we can also get around this by
explicitly seeding apt-daemon-pkcompat, as seeds are processed before
dependencies, so if that is the only remaining delta we can sync and
seed it.

However, the current Ubuntu package backports a change from upstream
git to add the LANGUAGE_SUPPORT "WhatProvides" enum. We do need this,
as we implement this as a plugin in language-selector, and dropping
this patch would break this.

> Dropping the Recommends is IMHO not a very good idea too

Libraries should usually not depend on daemons, this causes
unnecessary extra dependencies in chroots, build environments, etc.
But see above, as long as the library has an alternative dependency to
pkcompat, we can live with it.

Thanks,

Martin
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Title:
  Sync packagekit 0.7.2-4 (main) from Debian testing (main)

Status in “packagekit” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Please sync packagekit 0.7.2-4 (main) from Debian testing (main)

  Explanation of the Ubuntu delta and why it can be dropped:
  All Ubuntu changes have been applied to the Debian package too.
  The version from Debian includes some very important bugfixes which are missing in
  the Ubuntu version.

  Changelog entries since current precise version 0.7.2-2ubuntu3:

  packagekit (0.7.2-4) unstable; urgency=low

    * Don't ship transactions.db with PK package (Closes: #657831)
    * Add APTd PackageKit compat layer as alternative to the original daemon
    * Add Python APT backend again
    * Add language-support what-provides type
    * Don't crash if D-Bus is not available

   -- Matthias Klumpp <matthias at tenstral.net>  Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:12:10
  +0100

  packagekit (0.7.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

    * Depend on GLib tools, so gdbus is available (Closes: #656559)
    * Fix warnings when running GSD with PackageKit enabled
    * aptcc: Don't hang on long transactions (LP: #905415)

   -- Matthias Klumpp <matthias at tenstral.net>  Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:26:32
  +0100

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