Maverick Spring Cleaning
Right after an LTS release is a good time for an aggressive cleanup of things we don't need or that should be extensively refactored.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Started
- Approver:
- Robbie Williamson
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- Colin Watson
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Colin Watson
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for maverick
- Implementation:
- Started
- Milestone target:
- ubuntu-10.10-beta
- Started by
- Colin Watson
- Completed by
Whiteboard
Work items:
Review lucid-duplicate
[cjwatson] Merge dpkg and drop lzma from base system: DONE
[cjwatson] Add data.tar.xz support to Launchpad: DONE
Convert all packages using -Zlzma to use -Zxz instead: TODO
libjpeg8 transition (postponed in Debian, so it would not be economic to spend time on it in Ubuntu; see http://
Remove klibc from initramfs: TODO
[cjwatson] Install tasksel and aptitude dynamically: DONE
[cjwatson] Investigate gnupg's recommendation of libldap-2.4-2: DONE
Discuss ftp/lftp duplication on ubuntu-devel: TODO
[cjwatson] Discuss command-not-found in standard on ubuntu-devel (outcome: leave as-is): DONE
Investigate whether libdns can load libgeoip dynamically (filed bug 618935): DONE
[cjwatson] Discuss iputils-arping in standard on ubuntu-devel (outcome: move to server-ship): DONE
[cjwatson] Investigate iputils-
[cjwatson] Investigate whether language-
Investigate apparmor-utils -> libwww-perl dependency chain (filed bug 618928): DONE
[cjwatson] Stop explicitly seeding bogofilter in desktop-common: DONE
Drop cdparanoia from desktop-common: DONE
Stop explicitly seeding dvd+rw-tools and wodim in desktop-common: DONE
[vorlon] Drop acpi-support from desktop-common, or else remove its dependency on finger: DONE
Discuss maintenance of list of printing packages with till-kamppeter: TODO
[cjwatson] Investigate whether libgl1-mesa-* still need to be seeded directly: DONE
Investigate whether libpango can load libthai dynamically: TODO
Investigate libhpmud -> libsnmp -> libsensors -> lm-sensors dependency chain: TODO
Investigate porting foo2zjs to a more common widget set: TODO
Investigate possibility of replacing bzip2 with pbzip2 (bug 550507): TODO
[cjwatson] Assemble use cases for availability of unpacked source: POSTPONED
[persia] Verify availability of storage for persistent lintian lab: DONE
[persia] Complete preparation of automatic lintian runs against the archive: TODO
[persia] Announce availability of lintian results: TODO
[cjwatson] Investigate whether we can run source.debian.net for Ubuntu (blocked on opengrok packaging; see http://