Finally the Python 3 port of aptdaemon is ready for testing! Thanks to Barry Warsaw, Colin Watson and Martin Pitt for advice, support and code. So we are getting a step closer to shipping Python 3.2 only by default in Ubuntu Quantal 12.10.

Sometimes you just feel like a fool - or the fool of all fools. Especially if you have been pointed to a security vulnerability - in your own code…

Today is the second day of the cross distro app-installer mini-conference here in Nuremberg.

Finally sessioninstaller has left the status of vapoware! Sessioninstaller provides the missing link to use the PackageKit session API with aptdaemon.

This blog post is about the recent work done in aptdaemon - the backend used by Ubuntu’s software-center to install/remove packages.

I am glad to announce aptdaemon: It is a DBus controlled and PolicyKit using package management daemon build on python-apt.