Remove azure-cli from zesty, artful and bionic

[Derek Bekoe]

The current version of the azure-cli is 0.1.0~b7-1 on this repository.
However, the true latest is 2.0.25.

We would like to remove azure-cli from all distributions where it is available (zesty, artful and bionic).

The official install instructions point to https://packages.microsoft.com which frequently updates with the latest product version and that is the recommended way to install the product.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli?view=azure-cli-latest#install-with-apt-package-manager

Thanks,
Derek

[Luca Boccassi (bluca)]

azure-cli is not available in bionic anymore.
However it will again be available in Focal. The upstream package is unfortunately of very low quality - it vendorizes the entire Python stack including the interpreter and its libraries, without any meaningful security SLA. It should not be used in production in my opinion.

[Iain R. Learmonth (irl)]

Note also that the plugin system depends on being able to arbitrarily pull pip packages, bypassing any QA or security SLA that might be offered by your distribution. When I tried to package this in Debian I was modifying the plugin system to use apt/dpkg instead for plugins by default but this was met with hostility towards the modification from Microsoft. It's a shame but I eventually dropped the package from Debian (which I see you picked up bluca).