drop ubuntu-unity-meta from archive

[Mario Limonciello]

This package has not been uploaded since bionic. It's just been getting copied forward each release.

One of the dependencies (fwupdate) is being discussed to be removed from the archive in bug 1841744 but we need to decide what to do with ubuntu-unity-meta:
1) Remove it from archive
2) Rev it to drop that dependency

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

Ubuntu-Unity-Meta provides ubuntu-unity-desktop. It hasn't been updated because it needs to be sponsored and I myself don't have the upload right. If you see git commit you will see it has several commits after bionic release. The person who is maintaining that before is suffering from cancer and it was left like that before.

We carry a updated version in the unity maintainers ppa. I will try update and find sponsor for this cycle.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Thanks for your comments. I'll mark this bug invalid as you're still maintaining the package (although lacking a sponsor).

Can you please do the following:
1) In your git remove fwupdate and fwupdate-signed (replace fwupd/fwupd-signed if you see a need)
2) Mark https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1841744 as closed in the commit message.
2) Provide me a pointer to a ready to sponsor package and I'll review and sponsor it for you.

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

See https://code.launchpad.net/~unity7maintainers/ubuntu-unity-meta/+git/ubuntu-unity-meta/+ref/master

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

That needs to be updated for the distro to be eoan. can you please update it?

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Also it's not just sed 's,cosmic,eoan,', you need to make a new seeds branch for eoan it seems.

[Yuan-Chen Cheng (ycheng-twn)]

The origin idea is to either remove or remove fwupdate from Recommends of ubuntu-unity-meta (package ubuntu-unity-desktop)

For 19.10, fwupdate has been removed from Recommends of ubuntu-unity-meta (package ubuntu-unity-desktop).