** Changed in: gnome-software (Ubuntu)
Importance: Wishlist => Medium
** Changed in: gnome-software (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1643134
Title:
Switch gnome-software to use PackageKit backend
Status in gnome-software package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
This is a tracking bug to switch gnome-software from the Ubuntu-
specific apt backend to the PackageKit backend used by other distros.
In particular this is the backend used by Debian.
To build, just uncomment the commented-out packagekit line in gnome-
software's debian/rules and remove libapt-pkg-dev from Build-Depends.
(You can also drop aptdaemon from Depends.)
Changes
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- It fixes some annoying bugs lingering in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: LP: #1551599.
- It may also allow us to drop sessioninstaller (LP: #1661371)
- On an individual app page, Source is listed as something like
'ubuntu-zesty-universe' or ubuntu-yakkety-updates-main' or 'lp-ppa-
gnome3-team-gnome3-staging-yakkety-main' instead of just 'Ubuntu'
- On an individual app page, apps from multiverse or restricted will
show License as 'Proprietary' (example: VirtualBox or Devede ). This
also happens for locally installed apps (i.e. not matching what's in
your apt sources). I don't think it happens for PPAs since everything
in a PPA is in 'main'.
- If you install an app using GNOME Software (or I assume another
PackageKit app), it lists the date it was last installed or updated on
the individual app page with a link to see its update history. (But
the problem here is that update-manager doesn't use PK nor does apt on
the command line.)
- Any update, no matter how small, is only permitted as an offline
update. The button says "Restart & Install". It does seem to work fine
though.
- Another bug is that installing or Removing an app inside GNOME
Software is enough for it to "forget" about available Updates and
think that everything is "up to date".
(It looks like gnome-software 3.24 will let us completely disable
gnome-software's update mechanism and the Updates tab by default so
these previous two differences may be irrelevant then.)
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