[UIFe] Please remove unity-lens-shopping package from Edubuntu installation

[Jonathan Carter]

See also: LP#: 1054282

We do not want to expose users of Edubuntu to any inappropriate content.
Additionally, we would like to avoid shopping suggestions in Edubuntu as it goes against the goals of keeping Edubuntu free.
The software also has some serious security problems, like sending potentially private user data in cleartext over the network that makes it unfit for use in Edubuntu.

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

The security issues are being taken care of now, but the lack of suggestions filtering is indeed a problem.

It's worth noting that our current way of removing packages like the shopping lens won't prevent the package from getting installed during upgrades. We will need to redesign the way we're dealing with these in 13.04.

Edubuntu doesn't have any screenshots of that feature and most users probably didn't even notice it yet.

+1 on the exception.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package edubuntu-live - 12.10.9

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edubuntu-live (12.10.9) quantal; urgency=low

  * Rebuild hoping that Launchpad won't strip the translations this time.
  * Update translations.
  * Change default session for LTSP from Unity to gnome-fallback.
    This is done as Unity isn't usable since unity-2d was deprecated.
    gnome-classic doesn't seem to be really reliable either, so
    gnome-fallback will be used as the default for now.
    It's still possible to change the desktop environment at login time on the
    thin client and for all thin clients in /var/lib/tftpboot/*/i386/lts.conf
    (LP: #1055635)
  * Also add a Conflict against unity-lens-shopping as it's considered
    inappropriate for Edubuntu's target audience. (LP: #1055705)
 -- Stephane Graber <email address hidden> Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:47:21 -0400