I would like to ask you to reconsider the decision to make ubuntu- minimal depend on ubuntu-advantage-tools.
You can skip this paragraph if you're in a hurry. First, thank you for holding this discussion in the open. I totally understand the marketing reasons for this: I depend on Canonical's distribution, and want Canonical to offer their paying customers a fantastic out-of-the-box experience so that they can continue to offer their services to the general public, too. That said, the ubuntu-advantage-tools package is not in fact strictly necessary to allow the machine to boot, detect hardware, connect to a network, install packages or perform basic diagnostics. With ubuntu- minimal 1.400, this is now essentially a mandatory piece of software that will, at best, emit an error message. Would changing the relationship from Depends to Recommends meet your requirements (automatic setup on every Ubuntu machine) while allowing manual removal of the package? Actually, one could argue that the ubuntu-minimal package on non-LTS releses should Conflict, not Depend, on ubuntu-advantage-tools. This ought to cause for the automatic removal of the package when dist- upgrading to a non-LTS release. That would give the package scripts a chance to warn the system administrator that they are about to give up on the benefits of their paid subscription. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1686183 Title: Ship ubuntu-advantage in ubuntu-minimal To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-advantage-tools/+bug/1686183/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
