Comment 0 for bug 1673258

aptdaemon is abandoned and unmaintained. It has already been dropped from Debian, but there are several reverse dependencies keeping it in Ubuntu. I will add bug tasks for each of those dependencies, which should be ported or dropped themselves. Then we can get rid of aptdaemon too.

See this mailing list thread for more details: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2017-March/039722.html