Comment 23 for bug 830492

"Sorry, James. But I cannot merge your changes."

That's ok. I wasn't expecting you to after you said you weren't planning to merge your own branch before Precise. I think I was a bit ambitious to hope this got into Precise.

"The alternative downloader has to be optional and provide a clear advantage over the current situation."

Yes, it will be. It will support Apt, Aria2 and Deluge. If I can find some decent documentation for Deluge's RPC.

"Furthermore you have to make the changes for the latest revision of aptdaemon - that is where the development takes place."

I'll merge it.

"Your statement to no longer work on this doesn't make the situation better."

Did I say that? Hmm. Maybe I came across like that. Sorry. I'm still working on the Aria2/Deluge support. There are a few things I need to fix.

"You have to coloberate with the other developers and not just dropping some piece of code and hoping someone will pick it up automatically."

Well I did ask some questions a while back and nobody answered so I started anyway. I'm not dropping the code.

BTW, I unassigned myself from Aptdaemon because you were already working on your separation branch.

Use an alternative download manager isn't really a problem, it's a potential solution to a couple of problems:
* 'Downloads should not lock apt'
* Bug #912402