Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Please remove aptdaemon from unstable. Context from #818011:
> We should not ship aptdaemon in Stretch. Aptdaemon is not maintained anymore > upstream and I do not believe that it is suitable for a stable Debian release. > It should have been dropped last release already. > > There are currently two reverse dependencies: > > * software-properties (#730807) > * isenkram (Bug#742429) > > Both have to be ported to PackageKit. mak wanted to rebase the patch for s-p > IIRC, but I'm wondering about isenkram. Unfortunately, isenkram is needed > for debian-edu, otherwise I would have recommended the removal from testing. > > I'm increasing the bug severities to serious, so we are sure to deal with > this before the release, as I don't want to have yet another release with > a basically unmaintained aptdaemon in it. Especially now that even Ubuntu > is moving to PackageKit. Both of those reverse dependencies have been fixed in the meantime, the fixed isenkram was just accepted half an hour ago. -- Debian Developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev When replying, only quote what is necessary, and write each reply directly below the part(s) it pertains to (`inline'). Thank you.
