gdebi / python-apt backport

Users have expressed interest for a backport of the wonderful gdebi, which I
would like to see also. It's the one missing link in easy software installs
for Ubuntu.


I noticed its recent upload into Dapper, and built a test package of it.
However, it doesn't install on Breezy because python-apt dependency versions
could not be satisfied... So here's the thing:

(1) Does gdebi really need the latest version of python-apt?

(2) Would packaging a backport of python-apt break compatibility with any
existing packages? In theory, the situation should be safer with Python
modules, but I don't want to take any chances... Looking at the apt-cache
rdepends list, prominently update-* use this library.


Thanks in advance for you time.
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