Mallard's action="install:foo" vs differing package names in distros

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

[Dropping on this mailing list before I forget about it again.]

Mallard allows installing software via
<link action="install:packagename" href="http://package.org/";>Install package</link>

One problem is that packages have different names in different
distributions.

As I learned from Matthias Klumpp at Desktop Summit, 
http://dde.debian.net/distromatch-frontend.htm exists which lists
package names depending on the distributions.
Not sure if there is an API for querying.

andre
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