[packagekit] Packagekit and Ubuntu

Matthias Klumpp matthias at nlinux.org
Tue Sep 15 14:23:18 PDT 2009


On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:16:12 +0100, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 2009/9/15 Matthias Klumpp <matthias at nlinux.org>:
>> True. I also recognized this problem on Debian/Ubuntu with pacakges
which
>> depend on Java-Runtime.
>> It would be great if there's a solution for this issue.
> 
> So what does java-runtime actually need to do, just show a EULA?
> Surely you know about this before you've installed the package?
I could test those cases with some sample-packages (just to see if there's
a way to find out what questions are asked in the maintainer script)
This issue is very interesting, maybe there is a solution (?)

>> Canonical has only a few employees who focus on
>> Ubuntu development and have less time to participate in upstream
>> projects.
> 
> My personal view is that Canonical needs to recognise that Ubuntu is
> made from Linux, not the other way around. But that's way off topic
> for this mailing list.

Both true ;-)

 Matthias


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