RM uhome: unusable, requires /usr/bin/python but has no dependency, depends on to-be-removed python-requests

[Steve Langasek]

python-requests is due for removal in 20.04 because it depends on other modules that are already unbuildable due to removals.

Looking at the reverse-dependencies, I see that the uhome package depends on python-requests, but does not depend on python. This means the package is currently broken in focal, because it has not transitioned to using /usr/bin/python2 as a shebang.

But it should really be migrated now to python3, so that we can remove python-requests.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Furthermore,

source package contains prebuilt snappy/ package (the click based deb ar archive thing).
source package contains editor backup file (Vim swap file)
binary package too contains the editor backup file

I don't think it does OAuth 2.0 authentication with Nest correctly, and forces one to disclose google account credentials, when they are not needed to complete the auth.

Has obsolete dependencies.

This software, as is, should be removed from the Ubuntu archive.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

Removing packages from groovy-proposed:
 uhome 1.3-0ubuntu1 in groovy
  uhome 1.3-0ubuntu1 in groovy amd64
  uhome 1.3-0ubuntu1 in groovy arm64
  uhome 1.3-0ubuntu1 in groovy armhf
  uhome 1.3-0ubuntu1 in groovy i386
  uhome 1.3-0ubuntu1 in groovy ppc64el
  uhome 1.3-0ubuntu1 in groovy riscv64
  uhome 1.3-0ubuntu1 in groovy s390x
Comment: LP: #1874366, remove uhome
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