Advice needed: update-manager in wheezy considered dangerous

[Michael Gilbert]

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