The package should be doable by any Ubuntu Developer since it is just an empty package. Process will be your biggest hurdle, as you've already seen. Do you have a Launchpad bug filed already? A title like "Replace bitcoin-core with an empty dummy package" should suffice -- that bug will then be linked in the SRU upload (uploading to precise-proposed can be done by any dev). After that's done, the SRU team can be subscribed who will then accept the upload.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 6:57 AM, Micha Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I brought up the issue of Bitcoin Core (the new name/branding of the > Bitcoin reference implementation, to distinguish between the specific > software and the system) and Ubuntu a few months ago. I was told that while > it could be (and then it was) removed from the then-next release, Trusty, > and blacklisted from Debian syncing, it couldn't be removed from the repos. > Someone (I seem to remember it being S(teve?) Langasek) mentioned that one > possibility was an SRU (I think that was the term for it) that removed the > software by "replacing" it with a dummy package. Recently, yet another user > came in to the IRC channels and was having problems with version 0.3.24 as > shipped in precise. At the time I tried figuring out how to go about > proposing the dummy package replacement, and was unsuccessful. So, I'm > asking here: if anyone has the knowledge/skill for it and is willing to help > out with the process of "removing" the package? > -- > Ubuntu-motu mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu > -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
