I've finally solved all the issues with PackageKit and Debian – I present the new gnome-packagekit frontend for Debian: ![]()
Joking aside, Debian and Ubuntu can work just fine with PackageKit, I'm really not sure what all the noise is about.
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Richard has over 10 years of experience developing open source software. He is the maintainer of GNOME Software, PackageKit, GNOME Packagekit, GNOME Power Manager, GNOME Color Manager, colord, and UPower and also contributes to many other projects and opensource standards. Richard has three main areas of interest on the free desktop, color management, package management, and power management.
Richard graduated a few years ago from the University of Surrey with a Masters in Electronics Engineering. He now works for Red Hat in the desktop group, and also manages a company selling open source calibration equipment. Richard's outside interests include taking photos and eating good food.
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well, power to you. As you have probably noticed in that blog post, most people do not agree with jason. Having weighten up all the facts I personally are fully behind you, also. Just seems to be a bug in DPKG's, so I do not really understand why PK should work around it when fixing it up and the packages is a much cleaner and better way.