Comment 7 for bug 1022407

Everything except for Apper is already 100% compatible with 0.8.x, so
this is no issue :-)

2012/10/2 Sebastian Heinlein <email address hidden>:
> Am Montag, den 01.10.2012, 23:44 +0000 schrieb Matthias Klumpp:
>> Usable packages for PK 0.8.x are now available in Debian Experimental. I'll very soon assemble the whole family of PackageKit-related apps there and then push everything to unstable, as soon as it is ready. (But because Debian is at freeze at time and I don't want to annoy people who depend on PackageKit and want to contribute packages to testing via unstable, I'll wait with this for some time)
>> You can take the packages for Ubuntu R*
>
> At first aptdaemon needs to support the 0.8 framework before we will see
> a later version of PackageKit in Ubuntu. But I already started on
> porting the interface.
>
> Furthermore we have to see how fast the new API gets used by the clients
> (e.g. in GNOME). That should only happen if most of the backends have
> been ported to 0.8.
>
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> Title:
> Update to 0.8.x
>
> Status in “packagekit” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Update to version 0.8.1. We need to investigate if this should be
> done in Quantal, the notes in NEWS are:
>
> Notes:
> - We've broken a lot of API in this release. A LOT. If you're using the
> systemd D-Bus interface of PackageKit, then it's likely you'll have
> to spend a few minutes converting to the new interfaces.
> If you use the packagekit-glib or packagekit-qt bindings they'll
> be the odd change too, but nothing quite as drastic.
> - Both the client libraries broke ABI, so there's a soname bump.
> - Needless to say, it's probably not a good idea to push all this new
> and broken code into your super-stable paid-for-support distro.
> - If anyone has questions about porting, grab one of us developers on
> the PackageKit mailing list.
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