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[Martin Owens <doctormo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey gang, JC,

I've heard news on the Ubuntu planet a few times about apt-zeroconf, but
each time I check out the launchpad page I read some generic blurb which
I can't really get my head around.

So exactly, in dumb terms, what does it do? And can this explanation be
added to the launchpad project?

My current theory is that it involves automatically stuffing a surprise
puppy into every apt package, effectively feeding many of the worlds
poor as well as updating their software. The only other wild idea was
that it some how uses avahi to detect local network apt-mirrors or
caches and auto-configures the local machine to use them.

But I'm probably just wrong.

Regards, Martin