update-notifications, gnome-settings-daemon vs gnome-software

[Josselin Mouette]

Hi,

Le dimanche 11 octobre 2015 à 20:28 +0200, Michael Biebl a écrit : 
> Hi Joss,
> 
> I'm in the process of updating gnome-settings-daemon to 3.18.0.
> We currently ship debian/patches/01_reinstate_updates_plugin.patch in
> gnome-settings-daemon, which you added with the following changelog entry:
> 
>   * 01_reinstate_updates_plugin.patch: reinstate the “updates” plugin,
>     since gnome-software is not in jessie and we need an update»
>     mechanism.
> 
> We do have gnome-software in sid/testing now, so I wonder if we can drop
> the patch or if there is still value in keeping it.
> 
> gnome-software itself still looks pretty much broken in Debian.
> It's dog-slow, I can't seem to browse all available applications,
> searching for applications doesn't seem to work etc.
> 
> So I'm not sure if gnome-software is ready yet.
> 
> Does anyone have better experience with gnome-software and knows what's
> missing here?

>From what I know, gnome-software was already working fine in 3.14. It’s
just that it didn’t make it to jessie, so I put back the 3.12 code. The
patch should probably be deleted now.

Cheers,
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