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Release 0-6-20091207

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.