[packagekit] I've broken all your nice backend code...

[Matthias Klumpp]

Hi!
Just FYI, the Smart backend is packaged in Debian and functional. It
has a Popcon index of 135, which is not that bad[1].
I cannot make a decision, but it might be interesting for you to know this :-)
Cheers,
   Matthias

[1]: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=packagekit

2012/6/6 Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>:
> On 6 June 2012 09:46, Anders F Björklund <afb at algonet.se> wrote:
>> "Pretty badly", I suppose... The smart package itself and the config
>> is still not updated, so it has the 2010 version and fc13.89 repos[*].
>
> That's pretty bad.
>
>> Updated the API ("PORTING"), but it seems like there is more to be done:
>> (pkcon:31022): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_new_string: assertion `string != NULL' failed
>> Results:
>> Fatal error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: Type of message, `(s)', does not match expected type `(t)'
>
> Ahh, you need to make install before trying to run.
>
>> Thus my question: is it better to drop it, then to just let it rot ?
>
> Not a question for me. :)
>
>> In order for PackageKit to work, it needs to have a distribution
>> that allows the needed packages, configuration and repositories.
>> It doesn't matter if the backend "works", if there is no "support".
>> So might as well move the other backends to separate installations...
>
> Well, will smart work on any other distro to Fedora17?
>
> Richard.
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