| 2021-01-10 15:44:19 |
Konstantin |
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Purpose of gdebi is to allow installing packages from a file. However, it's been 6 years since apt supported installation from a file¹. Let's make it easier on both maintainers and the people who have to install/use `gdebi` and then may need to search nuances, like passing options to dpkg.
As far as I read gdebi man page, its functional seems fully covered by apt. The only thing I'm a bit in doubts about is the `root` option. But from my reading of docs, it seems that `gdebi --root=/foo myfile.deb` would be analogous to `apt install -o Dpkg::Options::="--root=/foo" myfile.deb`.
So, my suggesttion: installing gdebi on currently supported releases should print a deprecation notice that explains how a user can install local files with `apt` instead. Then eventually remove gdebi from repositories.
I tried contacting maintainers of gdebi to ask whether it's worth adding a deprecation notice, but haven't found any ways to do that, and so I went straight to creating a report here.
1: https://mvogt.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/apt-1-1-released/ |
Purpose of gdebi is to allow installing packages from a file. However, it's been 6 years since apt supported installation from a file¹. Let's make it easier on both maintainers and the people who have to install/use `gdebi` and then may need to search nuances, like passing options to dpkg.
As far as I read gdebi man page, its functional seems fully covered by apt. The only thing I'm a bit in doubts about is the `root` option. But from my reading of docs, it seems that `gdebi --root=/foo myfile.deb` would be analogous to `apt install -o Dpkg::Options::="--root=/foo" ./myfile.deb`.
So, my suggesttion: installing gdebi on currently supported releases should print a deprecation notice that explains how a user can install local files with `apt` instead. Then eventually remove gdebi from repositories.
I tried contacting maintainers of gdebi to ask whether it's worth adding a deprecation notice, but haven't found any ways to do that, and so I went straight to creating a report here.
1: https://mvogt.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/apt-1-1-released/ |
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