Advice needed: update-manager in wheezy considered dangerous

[Julien Cristau]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 00:42:45 +0100, 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.
> 
You're going to need more convincing arguments than "might have issues"
to argue for removal at this stage.  As in specific ones, preferrably
with bug numbers attached.

Cheers,
Julien
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