As stated a few months in this discussion, upgrade-system merely Suggests update-notifier. It therefore doesn't need to be removed.
Martin-Éric 2013/5/10 Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]> > 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. > > -- > Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member > > See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. >
