On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 01:04:25AM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > 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.
Thinking further, it might also make sense to add a warning to the description of the update-manager packages as well; to prevent new installations. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
