On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:14:21AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> 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.
Yes. We need:
(a) transitional packages for
- update-notifier
- update-notifier-kde
- update-manager
(b) Breaks and Provides in gnome-packagekit / apper
gnome-packagekit on update-notifier, update-manager
apper on update-notifier-kde
I already uploaded a new version of update-notifier, called
0.99.3debian11+perrm1 that makes update-notifier a transitional
package; and requested update-managers removal from unstable.
I kept the update-notifier-common package the way it is now,
so update-notifier-kde keeps working until it is replaced by
a transitional package to apper. After that happened,
update-notifier-common will be dropped.
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Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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