@Khurshid: If the stuff is deprecated and unmaintained, we have to remove it. Otherwise we get stuck and cannot move forward and upgrade other parts of the stack, like Qt in this case.
If you are interested in keeping this stuff alive, nothing prevents you from creating a PPA and keeping these packages there. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu WebApps bug tracking, which is subscribed to online-accounts-api in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1695928 Title: Please remove obsolete UOA packages Status in account-plugins package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in gnome-control-center-signon package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in mcloud package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in online-accounts-api package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in storage-framework package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Ubuntu Online Accounts is no longer maintained. There is an alternative, GNOME Online Accounts for the GNOME desktop. Also, Unity's Online Accounts settings panel does not currently work without oxide-qt but oxide-qt will be removed from Ubuntu 17.10. Please remove these source packages and their binaries: ============= Phase 1 ------- gnome-control-center-signon account-plugins account-plugin-fitbit bug 1707794 account-polld (pay-service removed) (qtpurchasing-opensource-src removed) storage-provider-webdav bug 1707799 (sync-monitor removed) ubuntuone-credentials bug 1707798 (ubuntu-push removed) unity-china-photo-scope unity-scope-gdrive bug 1707796 By the way, gnome-control-center-signon fails to build with vala 0.36: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/324396241/buildlog_ubuntu-artful-amd64.gnome-control-center-signon_0.1.9+16.10.20160825-0ubuntu1~ubuntu17.10.1_BUILDING.txt.gz Phase 2 ------- ubuntu-system-settings-online-accounts online-accounts-api storage-framework keeper #1707801 mcloud (address-book-app removed) address-book-service (dialer-app removed) (messaging-app removed) telephony-service bug 1707802 tone-generator bug 1707802 ubuntu-system-settings buteo-sync-plugins-contacts-google (camera-app removed) indicator-transfer indicator-transfer-buteo libertine (ubuntu-experience-tests removed) unity-scopes-shell bug 1707797 (unity8 removed) Other Notes ----------- The Shotwell suggests have been dropped in artful-proposed. Shotwell is temporarily stuck in -proposed because of an autopkgtest issue https://bugzilla.gnome.org/781802 Kubuntu still uses signon-ui. See also https://code.launchpad.net/~xnox/ubuntu- seeds/unity8-removals/+merge/323615 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/account-plugins/+bug/1695928/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-webapps-bugs Post to : ubuntu-webapps-bugs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-webapps-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
