[Bug 1012703] Re: please add python3-packagekit package

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 14/06/12 00:08, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> Have you tried to run all stuff with Python3-only? This will probably
> already work :-)
> What I don't understand: ubuntu-drivers-common and update-manager are
> PackageMKit client applications - why don't they use GIR already?
> (Maybe there's a communication error somewhere, I'll clarify this
> tomorrow and maybe apply some changes regarding Python3-transition to
> the Debian package, which you could merge then, if you want. Of
> course, feel free to do what you think is good at Ubuntu. (I just
> always want to know which changes Ubuntu applies and why))
> Cheers,
>    Matthias

I think I might be wrong, as it seems that python3-packagekit is not
needed afterall.

I'm trying to get my head around this with help of a few people.

By the looks of things GIR is used....

Regards,
Dmitrijs.


> 
> 2012/6/14 Dmitrijs Ledkovs <1012703 at bugs.launchpad.net>:
>> On 13/06/12 23:24, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> This doesn't look sane to me... If you want to use PackageKit in your application, please use the GIR from Python3, there is no supported version of official Python bindings for PackageKit.
>>> The python-packagekit package is (and should be) only used by backends, client applications need to use the GIRepository.
>>> However, I'll look into the code to see if PK is Py3 compatible (I think it is) and if there's stuff remaining which needs to be done. (we had a few patches for Py3 some weeks ago...)
>>> (Maybe we could even drop the python-packagekit with new releases? - Need to find out more about it...)
>>>
>>
>> And I want to transition backends to python3, instead of python2. This
>> is a first step. It has been identified that python-packagekit is used
>> in aptdaemon, ubuntu-drivers-common and/or update-manager. This is
>> inline with the Quantal blueprint to drop python2 from the CD.
>> Potentially all of that stack should migrate from depending on
>> python-packagekit, but python3-packagekit is easier to introduce right
>> now and facilitate with quantal release goal.
>>
>> See:
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-q-python-versions
>>
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Dmitrijs.

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Title:
  please add python3-packagekit package

Status in “packagekit” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  please add python3-packagekit package

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