Remove startupmanager from 'universe' repo

[Sam_]

Eliminate the risk of user installing startupmanager and break their system.
It isn't developed any longer. Latest Changelog entry is from 21 Feb 2010.
https://launchpad.net/startup-manager/+announcement/8300

Instead consider to replace it with activiley developed grub-customizer.
https://launchpad.net/grub-customizer

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

It's startupmanager binary and source. It has no rdepends.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

2012-03-09 17:52:08 INFO Creating lockfile: /var/lock/launchpad-lp-remove-package.lock
2012-03-09 17:52:17 INFO Removing candidates:
2012-03-09 17:52:17 INFO startupmanager 1.9.13-5 in precise
2012-03-09 17:52:17 INFO startupmanager 1.9.13-5 in precise amd64
2012-03-09 17:52:17 INFO startupmanager 1.9.13-5 in precise armel
2012-03-09 17:52:17 INFO startupmanager 1.9.13-5 in precise armhf
2012-03-09 17:52:17 INFO startupmanager 1.9.13-5 in precise i386
2012-03-09 17:52:17 INFO startupmanager 1.9.13-5 in precise powerpc
2012-03-09 17:52:17 INFO Removed-by: Colin Watson
2012-03-09 17:52:17 INFO Comment: requested by and-sam; no rdepends, risks breaking user systems, superseded by grub-customizer (though not yet in Ubuntu at this point); LP: #886640
2012-03-09 17:52:17 INFO 6 packages successfully removed.
Confirm this transaction? [yes, no] yes
2012-03-09 17:52:19 INFO Transaction committed.
2012-03-09 17:52:19 INFO The archive will be updated in the next publishing cycle.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Unsubscribing ubuntu-archive since we can't do anything about the Baltix task. Feel free to resubscribe us if there's some other action for us to take.

[hit (hit801)]

Why it was removed without any option such as grub custamizer or options in System settig?

Most peaple have multiboot system and this utility was essential. Even Linux Mint provides it as default...

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

I agree. I found it to be a very useful GUI for certain things like:
1) changing the amount of seconds before the default OS was automatically selected
2) changing the default OS to boot

If they don't intend to package startupmanager, then I hope they get grub-customizer packaged into the main repositories soon. Let's give that some heat:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/684977