Please remove arkose from the archive for 14.04

[Stéphane Graber]

Hello,

I'm the author of arkose and its defacto Ubuntu maintainer. Due to various changes to the kernel, lxc, su, ... arkose has been for one reason or another unusuable for the paste year.

With the current LXC and kernel, it would now be possible to re-implement arkose entirely as an unprivileged tool, which is really what I always envisioned for the tool, but I won't have any time to do so in the near future so I'd much rather see the existing packages go away entirely for 14.04.

Arkose 2.x may then be provided again as a backport whenever I get around to coding it and getting it back into the archive.

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Only rdepends is edubuntu-meta which I've now updated, so it's safe to remove at this point.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Removing packages from trusty:
        arkose 1.6-0ubuntu1 in trusty
                arkose 1.6-0ubuntu1 in trusty amd64
                arkose 1.6-0ubuntu1 in trusty arm64
                arkose 1.6-0ubuntu1 in trusty armhf
                arkose 1.6-0ubuntu1 in trusty i386
                arkose 1.6-0ubuntu1 in trusty powerpc
                arkose 1.6-0ubuntu1 in trusty ppc64el
                arkose-gui 1.6-0ubuntu1 in trusty amd64
                arkose-gui 1.6-0ubuntu1 in trusty arm64
                arkose-gui 1.6-0ubuntu1 in trusty armhf
                arkose-gui 1.6-0ubuntu1 in trusty i386
                arkose-gui 1.6-0ubuntu1 in trusty powerpc
                arkose-gui 1.6-0ubuntu1 in trusty ppc64el
                arkose-nautilus 1.6-0ubuntu1 in trusty amd64
                arkose-nautilus 1.6-0ubuntu1 in trusty arm64
                arkose-nautilus 1.6-0ubuntu1 in trusty armhf
                arkose-nautilus 1.6-0ubuntu1 in trusty i386
                arkose-nautilus 1.6-0ubuntu1 in trusty powerpc
                arkose-nautilus 1.6-0ubuntu1 in trusty ppc64el
Comment: RoM (stgraber); currently unusable due to changes to kernel, LXC, etc., though may be reintroduced later; LP: #1299904
Remove [y|N]? y
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[oriolpont (oriolpont)]

Stéphane, until that arkose2, do you know of any equivalent alternative?

I mean for quick non-persistent sandboxing (e.g., for build testing) above a bare lxc.