-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Scott Ritchie wrote on 27/08/10 00:22: >... > The descriptions in Software Center are now out of date, since they > aren't the same for pre-PPA and post-PPA. Once the user adds the Wine > PPA they become more than confusing. So with the PPA ticking the box > for "Beta Release" will actually give you the stable wine1.2, and to > get wine1.3 you have to scroll down into the packages list and pick it > manually. >... > Ideally the mere act of adding the PPA would provide some new metadata > for Software Center. Since a user usually wants to install (or update) > some software at the same time as adding a PPA, it would be > particularly convenient if this could be done in one step (rather than > the current add sources, then open software center and find the right > Wine package or click an apt-url link). >...
For a year now, we have been trying to get the Soyuz team to make Launchpad generate this metadata whenever a new package is published, so that Ubuntu Software Center can download it whenever it downloads Packages.gz. <https://dev.launchpad.net/ArchiveIndex> I suggest explaining your use case to them (and perhaps adding it to the specification). - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkx3f7kACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecrwIwCcCCyO6qUvVztzOPO0Oxi5shaE qfEAoMjQwNd1RUzhpwe0GPiPWzEuSsMi =8drP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
