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The seeding [1] of it is also quite clear on why it is still there.
"""
# This stack is no more very relevant, but was in the early days of internet
# dialin. This stack is a candidate for demotion, but OTOH received no
# bugs/CVEs over the last years and therefore can stay as-is for now.
# ppp itself is still recommended by network-manager and thereby has quite
# an install base.
"""
Removing is maybe too hard as Steve outlined, but what about at least demoting to universe (to encourage it a bit less)?
The seed change to the section linked above would be trivial, but it would need coordination with the Desktop variants as a dependency to network-
reverse-depends --release=noble src:network-
Reverse-Recommends
==================
* network-manager (for network-
* ubuntu-
* ubuntu-
* ubuntu-
* ubuntu-desktop [amd64 arm64 armhf ppc64el]
* ubuntu-
* ubuntu-mate-core (for network-
* ubuntu-mate-desktop (for network-
* ubuntu-
* ubuntukylin-desktop (for network-
* vanilla-
* xubuntu-desktop (for network-
* xubuntu-desktop (for network-
Reverse-Depends
===============
* lomiri-
It comes at a comfort loss though, since this is depended on by all those meta packages to work right away in a fresh install, which would be a behavior that will be lost.
Also if there is a CVE, then only people using ubuntu pro would get a fix. Which is free for personal use, but those forced to use pptp are likely people with non-personal use of outdated infrastructure. So we'd make the world a bit less secure as likely not all would get the fixes then.
Still I'd want to know from Steve and Seth which discussed so far - what would you think about that as a compromise?
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