2013/3/12 Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]>: > 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
I really don't see the point in removing upgrade-system from Testing, since the dependency relationship is merely a Suggests. Martin-Éric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAPZXPQdVB=9wsowbwzrljimvbtfqom8pesfdyvwmyo1crp0...@mail.gmail.com
