include a way to check new packages

[David Prieto]

Binary package hint: packagekit-gnome

After using Packagekit for a while, one of the few things I miss from Synaptic is the ability to see newly included packages. This is enormously useful when using a development release of Ubuntu, because it lets you see which new stuff is available.

Packagekit should offer a way to see new stuff, either on its main window or in the update manager.

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

Thanks for the bug report.

Again I am opening the empty upstream task, as this is something
that should be discussed there.

Please note that packagekit-gnome won't be a complete replacement for
synaptic, certainly at this stage. Implementing the most useful things
is obviously good though, so proposing them is a good idea.

Thanks,

James

[David Prieto (frandavid100-gmail)]

Originally sent to launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/packagekit-gnome/+bug/276106

After using Packagekit for a while, one of the few things I miss from Synaptic is the ability to see newly included packages. This is enormously useful when using a development release of Ubuntu, because it lets you see which new stuff is available.

Packagekit should offer a way to see new stuff, either on its main window or in the update manager.

[Richard Hughes (richard-hughes)]

Sensible, I guess we could include a metagroup of "newest" that can be provided to the frontend. I'm not sure it makes sense to see the "newest" update, as we can already sort these by issue date. Could you please email the mailing list and get some feedback and ideas from other people? Thanks.

[David Prieto (frandavid100-gmail)]

How can I open an upstream bug for packagekit-gnome? I searched gnome-bugzilla, but this specific package doesn't seem to be available.

[David Prieto (frandavid100-gmail)]

Nevermind, just opened a request: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17837

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

Thanks for forwarding the bug.

James

[Richard Hughes (richard-hughes)]

I've sent a mail to the mailing list.

[Richard Hughes (richard-hughes)]

We moved the upstream bugtracker to GitHub a long time ago. If this issue still affects you please re-create the issue here: https://github.com/hughsie/PackageKit/issues

Sorry for the impersonal message, and fingers crossed your issue no longer happens. Thanks.