Am Mittwoch, den 13.06.2012, 22:24 +0000 schrieb Matthias Klumpp: 
> Hi!
> This doesn't look sane to me... If you want to use PackageKit in your 
> application, please use the GIR from Python3, there is no supported version 
> of official Python bindings for PackageKit.
> The python-packagekit package is (and should be) only used by backends, 
> client applications need to use the GIRepository.
> However, I'll look into the code to see if PK is Py3 compatible (I think it 
> is) and if there's stuff remaining which needs to be done. (we had a few 
> patches for Py3 some weeks ago...)
> (Maybe we could even drop the python-packagekit with new releases? - Need to 
> find out more about it...)

Dropping python-packagekit isn't an option. The python-packagekit
package is required by the apt and smart backend. Furthermore it is used
by aptdaemon and the plugins which are available for the apt backend and
aptdaemon (language-selector, ubuntu-driver-common, etc).

AFAIK Smart isn't yet ported to Python 3 so the backend will require
Python 2 for a longer period of time.

The apt backend should actually by Python 3 compatible (except a to be
changed import) but it hasn't worked when I gave it a short look. Needs
some investigation.

language-selector and ubuntu-drivers-common are not only PackageKit
clients: aptdaemon and the apt backend share a plugin system which
allows to modify the dependency resolver and to add WhatProvides
handlers. So language-selector modifies the resolver to ensure that the
language packs for non-default applications get installed and
ubuntu-drivers-common provide mod aliases/driver resolution.

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