Please remove and sync blocklist telegram-desktop from the archive

[Robie Basak]

This package automatically transitions users to a snap maintained by a third party without prompting. This is different to the situation with the firefox, chromium and lxd snaps for example. See the thread linked below for details.

Please therefore remove this package from the archive and sync blocklist it as it is considered damaging to users in both its present and previous state.

Mailing list thread: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2023-February/042481.html

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Should we remove it or turn it into an empty deb so users upgrading don't keep an old buggy and unmaintained version installed on their system?

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

We should remove it. The way to handle obsolete packages is not package-by-package. Both 'pro security-status' and ubuntu-release-upgrader provide better central mechanisms for informing users of obsolete packages and facilitating their removal.

Removing packages from lunar:
 telegram-desktop 4.5.3+snap-0ubuntu1 in lunar
  telegram-desktop 4.5.3+snap-0ubuntu1 in lunar amd64
  telegram-desktop 4.5.3+snap-0ubuntu1 in lunar arm64
  telegram-desktop 4.5.3+snap-0ubuntu1 in lunar ppc64el
Comment: Package inappropriately transitions to a third-party snap; LP: #2008258
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