On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:14:21AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > 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.
Yes. We need: (a) transitional packages for - update-notifier - update-notifier-kde - update-manager (b) Breaks and Provides in gnome-packagekit / apper gnome-packagekit on update-notifier, update-manager apper on update-notifier-kde I already uploaded a new version of update-notifier, called 0.99.3debian11+perrm1 that makes update-notifier a transitional package; and requested update-managers removal from unstable. I kept the update-notifier-common package the way it is now, so update-notifier-kde keeps working until it is replaced by a transitional package to apper. After that happened, update-notifier-common will be dropped. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130510135851.ga32...@debian.org