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| 2024-09-12 |
Mint addresses unmaintained APT utilities |
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The Linux Mint distribution is based on Ubuntu which is itself based on Debian. this family of distributions uses package management utilities collectively called APT. APT isn't just one program, it's a collection of tools which work (sometimes together, sometimes separately) to managing low-level packages. A problem the Mint team is facing is several of these tools are old and unmaintained. "Some of these APT tools and libraries were written more than a decade ago and are no longer maintained upstream. Linux Mint, Ubuntu and Debian have been patching them throughout the years so they still work, but their design, their translations, the features they provide are stuck in the past. Every Mint release is a reminder of this and a list of long-lasting paper cuts which we're unable to address. Because these utilities and libraries are very important to us we decided to simplify how we use them and to maintain them. Going forward we want perfect translations, no more paper cuts and if something we need is missing we'll just implement it. Gdebi and apturl were merged into a single utility application called Captain. Aptdaemon and mintcommon-aptdaemon were merged into a library called Aptkit." Additional information about this task and other projects the Linux Mint team are working on can be found in the distribution's August newsletter. |
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