On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe aptdaemon is effectively abandoned. It's been removed from Debian > but it's still hanging around in Ubuntu due to a few reverse dependencies: > > % reverse-depends aptdaemon > Reverse-Depends > =============== > * gnome-software > * language-selector-gnome > * oem-config-gtk > * python-aptdaemon > * python3-aptdaemon > * sessioninstaller > > I think the gnome-software dependency is unnecessary. I can't find a > reference to aptdaemon in the source, and I built a version without it in my > PPA, tested it in a Zesty VM and it worked fine afaict. I've prepared a > version that's ready for upload, which I'd like to do unless someone with more > knowledge about it objects. (OTOH, it's not urgent so it can wait until after > Zesty.) > > That leaves three remaining dependencies (ignoring python{,3}-apdaemon) all of > which appear legitimate. Note that language-selector-gnome, oem-config-gtk, > and sessioninstaller are only in Ubuntu, not in Debian, and each still have > their own reverse dependencies. > > I bring this up because back in January, I uploaded aptdaemon > 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu17 which was a contributed fix for LP: #1623856; a problem > with the minimum window height. I thought I'd tested the build at the time, > but I got distracted with other things, and was reminded today that it's > *still* in -proposed because its failing its tests. I don't think those tests > are fixable without a fair bit of work since afaict, they are using obsolete > APIs that no longer exist. The version before mine was last uploaded in > Yakkety, and even trying to build the Yakkety version in Zesty fails. So my > changes (as expected) aren't relevant and the package is simply no longer > buildable in Ubuntu. Yay for TIL. > > Given the state of aptdaemon, I think it's in Ubuntu's interest to drop it, > but that means porting or dropping language-selector-gnome, oem-config-gtk > (src:ubuquity), and sessioninstaller. I don't know what the states of those > packages are, so the best I can do is file bugs against them. > > Given where we are in the Zesty cycle, I recommend just dropping aptdaemon > 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu17 from -proposed and marking LP: #1623856 as Won't Fix. > Let's try to drop aptdaemon from Ubuntu in Acrobatic Aardvark. >
So, sessioninstaller is an aptdaemon based implementation of the PackageKit session interface. The two can be dropped together, since they are both unmaintained and not needed. PackageKit provides everything needed as a replacement. The dependency by gnome-software is illusory, as it depends on PackageKit D-Bus interfaces (provided by PackageKit). The dependency wasn't even present in xenial, as far as I recall... oem-config-gtk is a single script[1] with only a few lines of code actually using aptdaemon, and that can be ported to use PackageKit instead. language-selector-gnome is similar[2], and should be easy to port out to PackageKit, assuming this is even needed anymore. It doesn't look like it's maintained either... [1]: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-installer/ubiquity/trunk/view/head:/bin/oem-config-remove-gtk [2]: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/vivid/language-selector/vivid/view/head:/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
