Please remove the plainbox package

Bug #1801687 reported by Zygmunt Krynicki
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
checkbox-ng (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
plainbox (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
plainbox-provider-checkbox (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
plainbox-provider-resource-generic (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
ubuntu-testing-tools (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Chris Wayne

Bug Description

The package has been merged into checkbox and the team maintaining and developing it is not using Debian packages anymore.

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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote :

Thanks for reporting.

I've taken the liberty of subscribing https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-archive, which is the team responsible for removing packages or introducing new ones.

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

Demoting packages to disco-proposed:
 checkbox-ng 0.23-2 in disco
 plainbox-provider-checkbox 0.25-2 in disco
 plainbox-provider-resource-generic 0.23-1.1 in disco
Comment: LP: #1801687: remove plainbox and demote its rdeps
3 packages successfully demoted.

Removing packages from disco:
 plainbox 0.25-1 in disco
  plainbox 0.25-1 in disco amd64
  plainbox 0.25-1 in disco arm64
  plainbox 0.25-1 in disco armhf
  plainbox 0.25-1 in disco i386
  plainbox 0.25-1 in disco ppc64el
  plainbox 0.25-1 in disco s390x
  plainbox-insecure-policy 0.25-1 in disco amd64
  plainbox-insecure-policy 0.25-1 in disco arm64
  plainbox-insecure-policy 0.25-1 in disco armhf
  plainbox-insecure-policy 0.25-1 in disco i386
  plainbox-insecure-policy 0.25-1 in disco ppc64el
  plainbox-insecure-policy 0.25-1 in disco s390x
  plainbox-secure-policy 0.25-1 in disco amd64
  plainbox-secure-policy 0.25-1 in disco arm64
  plainbox-secure-policy 0.25-1 in disco armhf
  plainbox-secure-policy 0.25-1 in disco i386
  plainbox-secure-policy 0.25-1 in disco ppc64el
  plainbox-secure-policy 0.25-1 in disco s390x
  python3-plainbox 0.25-1 in disco amd64
  python3-plainbox 0.25-1 in disco arm64
  python3-plainbox 0.25-1 in disco armhf
  python3-plainbox 0.25-1 in disco i386
  python3-plainbox 0.25-1 in disco ppc64el
  python3-plainbox 0.25-1 in disco s390x
  python3-plainbox-doc 0.25-1 in disco amd64
  python3-plainbox-doc 0.25-1 in disco arm64
  python3-plainbox-doc 0.25-1 in disco armhf
  python3-plainbox-doc 0.25-1 in disco i386
  python3-plainbox-doc 0.25-1 in disco ppc64el
  python3-plainbox-doc 0.25-1 in disco s390x
Comment: LP: #1801687: remove plainbox and demote its rdeps
1 package successfully removed.

tags: added: block-proposed ftbfs
Changed in plainbox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

This has impacted the ubuntu-testing-tools package in disco (specifically, ubuntu-benchmark-tools binary package) because it depends on checkbox-ng which is now uninstallable.

The ubuntu-testing-tools package has only had three uploads in 6 years, and one of them was mine to make it depend on checkbox-ng in the first place (instead of the even-longer-obsolete 'checkbox').

Assigning this to Chris Wayne, who was the original uploader. Chris, is ubuntu-testing-tools still useful? Should it be dropped from the archive? Should it drop its dependency on checkbox-ng? Does checkbox-ng need to be fixed?

Changed in checkbox-ng (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Chris Wayne (cwayne18)
status: New → Triaged
Changed in ubuntu-testing-tools (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
assignee: nobody → Chris Wayne (cwayne18)
Changed in checkbox-ng (Ubuntu):
assignee: Chris Wayne (cwayne18) → nobody
status: Triaged → New
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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote :

Do this also need a removal request in Debian? Whilst checkbox-ng was removed from testing, it is still present in unstable. See https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/checkbox-ng

Maybe an RM, RoM bug needs to be filed there too?

Steve Langasek (vorlon)
no longer affects: python-padme (Ubuntu)
Revision history for this message
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

plainbox-provider-checkbox deleted on 2018-11-06:
LP: #1801687: remove plainbox and demote its rdeps

Changed in plainbox-provider-checkbox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

plainbox-provider-resource-generic removed on 2018-11-06:
LP: #1801687: remove plainbox and demote its rdeps

Changed in plainbox-provider-resource-generic (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

No attention for a cycle; can be readded if someone needs it and will maintain it.

Removing packages from disco-proposed:
 ubuntu-testing-tools 0.2 in disco
  ubuntu-benchmark-tools 0.2 in disco amd64
  ubuntu-benchmark-tools 0.2 in disco arm64
  ubuntu-benchmark-tools 0.2 in disco armhf
  ubuntu-benchmark-tools 0.2 in disco i386
  ubuntu-benchmark-tools 0.2 in disco ppc64el
  ubuntu-benchmark-tools 0.2 in disco s390x
  ubuntu-remote-debug-host-tools 0.2 in disco amd64
  ubuntu-remote-debug-host-tools 0.2 in disco arm64
  ubuntu-remote-debug-host-tools 0.2 in disco armhf
  ubuntu-remote-debug-host-tools 0.2 in disco i386
  ubuntu-remote-debug-host-tools 0.2 in disco ppc64el
  ubuntu-remote-debug-host-tools 0.2 in disco s390x
Comment: Ubuntu-specific, unmaintained, depends on removed checkbox-ng; LP: #1801687
1 package successfully removed.

Changed in ubuntu-testing-tools (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

checkbox-ng was removed 2019-04-15:
ROM: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=926953

Changed in checkbox-ng (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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