Comment 2 for bug 990516

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 02:36:07AM -0000, Micah Gersten wrote:
> Sorry, I caught this a bit too late as well. The main archive is now
> frozen since we're post release, so barring a very extreme situation,
> packages cannot be removed at this point.

At some point in the lifetime of 12.04, 3.8 will run out of upstream
support. It makes more sense to me to consider removing it now and
pointing people at request-tracker4, which has a longer expected
lifetime, than to leave request-tracker3.8.

I speak as the only person who has, as far as I know, contributed
security fixes to RT in Ubuntu. I'd rather not have the headache of
feeling (however unjustly) that I am responsible for maintaining
3.8 in 12.04 with no upstream support, for the next five years.

On a separate note - I am really quite surprised that there is no process
in Ubuntu for checking the Debian RC bug list at freeze time. Such a
review would have made it quite obvious that request-tracker3.8 shouldn't
have been released in 12.04. Perhaps this should be considered in
future?

> I'll convert this into a
> removal from quantal though. We actually can't remove this until the
> addons that depend on it are updated for 4.0 or removed from Debian.

You seem to be suggesting that you can decide to remove request-tracker3.8
but not other leaf packages which depend on it? I don't follow the
logic here.

rt-extension-emailcompletion and rtfm also have RC bugs in Debian and
will be removed from Debian before long. They should be removed from
Ubuntu at the same time as RT3.8. rt-extension-assettracker has been
updated to not produce any binary packages depending on RT3.8.

Dominic.

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