Oh, wait, so are you saying gdebi contains a graphical interface??
Sorry, I never knew that. I used to only ever seeing suggestions about
gdebi in the context of command line usage. That kind of changes
everything. Yeah, sure, in this case it would make sense to keep gdebi
in the repo.
I'll close the bug in this case.
> gdebi is / was a graphical enough utility for that purpose, but… see
picture attached.
That's sad indeed. I think that deserves a separate bugreport though.
** Changed in: gdebi (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1910913
Title:
Deprecating gdebi
Status in gdebi package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Purpose of gdebi is to allow installing packages from a file. However,
it's been 6 years since apt supported installation from a file¹. Let's
make it easier on both maintainers and the people who have to
install/use `gdebi` and then may need to search nuances, like passing
options to dpkg.
As far as I read gdebi man page, its functional seems fully covered by
apt. The only thing I'm a bit in doubts about is the `root` option.
But from my reading of docs, it seems that `gdebi --root=/foo
myfile.deb` would be analogous to `apt install -o Dpkg::Options::="--
root=/foo" ./myfile.deb`.
So, my suggesttion: installing gdebi on currently supported releases
should print a deprecation notice that explains how a user can install
local files with `apt` instead. Then eventually remove gdebi from
repositories.
I tried contacting maintainers of gdebi to ask whether it's worth
adding a deprecation notice, but haven't found any ways to do that,
and so I went straight to creating a report here.
1: https://mvogt.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/apt-1-1-released/
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