| Student Name: | Stephan Peijnik |
| Mentor Name: | Michael Vogt |
| Title: | Distribution-independent update-manager |
| Abstract: | The project would involve taking the distribution-(Ubuntu-)specific update-manager code, analyzing it, and creating a package with just its core functionality, decoupling the distribution-specific parts and thus making the core code extensible by distribution-specific add-ons. This in turn would remove the need of porting update-manager to Debian with every upstream release. An additional optional goal would be replacing the synaptics-backend with a python-apt based one. |