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. Regards, Emilio
Please let me know what you think, and if I missed something. PS: Yes, I know that we're late in freeze, but I feel that we should not have that package in a stable release. PPS: Please keep me CCed (and maybe pkg-gnome-maintainers as well) _______________________________________________ pkg-gnome-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-gnome-maintainers
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