[packagekit] KPackagekit in Kubuntu

[Jonathan Riddell]

Hi, I've packaged libpackagekit-qt and kpackagekit for Kubuntu Intrepid.

https://edge.launchpad.net/~jr/+archive

It's working really well, thanks for working on it Adrien and Daniel.

Before I upload it to the main Ubuntu archive there is an inconsistency in the 
licencing that needs fixed, the COPYING file is GPL 3 but the code is GPL 2.  I 
think it would be best to change it to GPL 2 since that would allow it to be 
put into KDE's SVN which would help speed up distro adoption.

The upgrade module doesn't do anything and the settings module only lets me 
set the download interval, I wonder if that is due to limitations in the apt 
backend.

It needs policykit of course, have you looked into using the policykit-kde 
code in http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/base/PolicyKit-kde/ ?  I 
couldn't get it working.

Thinking about what would need to be done for it to be a complete distro 
package management tool, we currently have a systray applet that shows if 
there are updates needing processed, an application for installing a single 
package (used by a script from Amarok to install MP3 support for example) and 
a simplified install interface which only lists GUI applications (currently 
Ubuntu specific but there's no paticular reason it needs to be).  Does any of 
that interest you as developers?

Jonathan