Re: Advice needed: update-manager in wheezy considered dangerous
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.
Best wishes
Mike
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