Hi Julian,
On 12/03/13 00:42, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
Dear release team, I report this problem as we have switched our package
management
stack in wheezy from update-manager and other components to PackageKit. Those
old components are still in wheezy however, and especially update-manager can
be considered to be horribly dangerous: It might break systems or contain
extreme
security issues as it has not seen someone really care about it since 2 years.
We cannot simply remove update-manager however, as there are reverse
dependencies. The most important ones appear to be:
* upgrade-system
* update-notifier
We could simply drop upgrade-system from testing. For update-notifier, we cannot
do this, as update-notifier-kde depends on update-notifier-common, and there are
no other notifiers for KDE AFAIK. I could however upload an empty
update-notifier
package (for GNOME) that switches the user to the PackageKit notifier, thus
removing that reverse dependency.
Summary of the proposed solution:
1. Remove upgrade-system from testing
2. Replace update-notifier binary package with a package transitioning
users to gnome-packagekit
3. Remove update-manager from testing or transition users to PackageKit
I think it's time to do something like this in unstable.
Regards,
Emilio
Please let me know what you think, and if I missed something.
PS: Yes, I know that we're late in freeze, but I feel that we should not have
that package in a stable release.
PPS: Please keep me CCed (and maybe pkg-gnome-maintainers as well)
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