** Description changed: 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 ======= - 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. + 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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