gdebi / python-apt backport

Hi,

well, these tests can be done in a breezy chroot...you inject the package of 
python-apt...and see e.g. how update-manager is behaving.

Normally if there is no API change, there shouldn't be any sideeffects...but 
you should test it really, _really_ hard.

regards,
\sh

On Saturday 26 November 2005 01:51, John Dong wrote:
> 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.