Comment 5 for bug 2041751

I actually agree that we should aim to remove these packages entirely, rather than merely demoting them.

I think removal of the server is a clear-cut case. Nobody should need to run a pptp server nowadays on Ubuntu, and if anyone is, forcing them to migrate to a better VPN solution on upgrade (or maintaining their own pptpd without Ubuntu support) is IMHO reasonable.

Removing the client, I think, is less clear-cut. If you don't have a pptp server to talk to, then shipping the client is harmless. If you DO have a pptp server to talk to, then the client is essential. Anyone running a PPTP server on Windows these days should upgrade... but dropping the client support from Ubuntu doesn't give the Ubuntu users any more leverage to make their server admin upgrade, it just makes Ubuntu unusable in such an environment.

So I think we should remove pptpd from the archive for noble, but that we should propose removal of the clients via discussion with the Debian maintainers.