Dear desktopers, Julian Andres Klode, the ITP holder of gnome-app-install, wants to get gnome-app-install into Debian soon, since apt 0.7 finally landed in Unstable.
But there are still some open question that are worth a discussion. On of the main concepts of g-a-i is to make enabling additional and third party repositories as easy as possible. But do we want this in Debian? Furthermore g-a-i allows to filter the list of shown packages. Ubuntu uses the following filters: all applications, Open Source applications (main + universe), supported applications (main + commercial), third party applications (commercial) and installed applications. I added the capability to gnome-app-install to show different filters for the corresponding distribution. The application data will be separated into three packages: app-install-data-debian-main, app-install-data-debian-contrib and app-install-data-non-free. 1. The Ubuntu way: Shipping the data for all applications of main, contrib and non-free by default, excluding the icons, using filters to select the level of freedom and defaulting to only show applications of main. The filters could be the following: all applications (main, contrib, non-free), only Free Debian applications (main), only installed applications (we don't need to promote third party applications and we do not support non-free applications) 2. The 'unfriendly' way: we could ship different app-data packages for each component (main + contrib + non-free) and only the main package by default and just use two filters: all applications, installed applications So we would not make any use of the enabling of additional components, by default but would not promote non-free software too. The user would have to install app-data-debian-contrib or app-data-debian-non-free to install the corresponding applications. We use emblems and text messages in the application description to mark packages that are non-free or part of Debian in both cases. Finally there is still one open dependency: sexy-python. Since the ITP holder does not respond to mails it would be nice if anybody else could upload it. Cheers, Sebastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
