Advice needed: update-manager in wheezy considered dangerous

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 12 mars 2013 à 20:21 +0100, Julien Cristau a écrit : 
> 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.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=update-manager
Look for “[CRASH]”, for example.

At the very least, can we make update-notifier stop starting
update-manager? This should be a trivial change.

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