Le mardi 20 mars 2012, à 11:54 +0100, Matthias Klumpp a écrit : > Hi! > I can give some feedback from Debian. > Unfortunately, we can't use the proposed XML-based format on Debian, > because this is an unusual format for Debian which our ftpmasters > don't like. > Because Debian generally lacks some metadata for packages (including > stuff I can use in my Listaller[1] trial, hehe), I created the > DEP11[2] proposal, together with Michael Vogt and Julian A. Klode. So > Debian will use a RFC822-style format to store AppStream data and a > bunch of other stuff. From this data, we will then generate the Xapian > database, which the new Software Center can use. > Theoretically, we could use the Ubuntu Software Center on Debian, but > maybe we could switch to the fork, if this provides benefits to > Debian. (The USC is - naturally - very Ubuntu-centric) > So please, don't depend on the XML stuff directly anywhere ;-)
The code using the XML is contained in softwarecenter/db/update.py, and is actually already ready to deal with different formats -- Michael did that work a while ago. So I don't expect any issue here :-) > Ubuntu will likely switch to DEP11 data, as they can benefit from it too. > > All other Debian-related stuff can happen when DEP11 is implemented, I > don't know how fast I'll be with this. (less Python knowledge, much to > do for university, probably a GSoC project to finish) > I someone wants to help... :D > In general, there is progress on Debian's side, depending on the > freezes we might have something working at the end of this year :) :-) Cheers, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ Distributions mailing list Distributions@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions