On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 07:52:24PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:42 PM, 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.
> 
> In my opinion, it is really way too late for this.  If you want to
> discourage people from using update-manager in wheezy, a patch to the
> release notes would be most helpful.  Otherwise, let's not waste time
> on a rather disruptive change when it can wait till the start of
> jessie.

This seems like a much better idea, yes. I just hope enough people
read those.

-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.


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