Advice needed: update-manager in wheezy considered dangerous

[Julian Andres Klode]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 01:04:25AM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 07:52:24PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Julian Andres Klode  wrote:
> > > Dear release team, I report this problem as we have switched our package management
> > > stack in wheezy from update-manager and other components to PackageKit. Those
> > > old components are still in wheezy however, and especially update-manager can
> > > be considered to be horribly dangerous: It might break systems or contain extreme
> > > security issues as it has not seen someone really care about it since 2 years.
> > 
> > In my opinion, it is really way too late for this.  If you want to
> > discourage people from using update-manager in wheezy, a patch to the
> > release notes would be most helpful.  Otherwise, let's not waste time
> > on a rather disruptive change when it can wait till the start of
> > jessie.
> 
> This seems like a much better idea, yes. I just hope enough people
> read those.

Thinking further, it might also make sense to add a warning to the
description of the update-manager packages as well; to prevent
new installations.

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Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

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