[Bug 1738046] Re: Demote from main / thoughts on removing?

[Jeremy Bicha]

system-config-kickstart has no reverse dependencies. It is in main because it is listed in
supported-sysadmin-desktop in the platform seeds. It was added there in 2005 by cjwatson and Jeff Waugh (~jdub).

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Title:
  Demote from main / thoughts on removing?

Status in system-config-kickstart package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Rationale:
  This package is uninstallable in Fedora 27 (which used to be the active upstream) - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1406598.

  dnf install  system-config-kickstart
  Last metadata expiration check: 2:21:06 ago on Wed Dec 13 14:34:27 2017.
  Error: 
   Problem: conflicting requests
    - nothing provides system-config-date needed by system-config-kickstart-2.9.3-5.fc27.noarch

  Upstream doesn't seem to have done any code changes in a while -
  https://github.com/rhinstaller/system-config-kickstart/tree/master/src

  As changes happen to kickstart (or new filesystems) it looks like we
  have to manually add them here - so with out an active upstream we
  become it. I don't think that's worth it, I'd much rather users just
  edit a preseed file for Ubuntu.

  Maintenance wise it's getting close to keep both python3 and gtk3 in main:
  python3 port: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-config-kickstart/+bug/1735386
  gtk3 port: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-config-kickstart/+bug/1735872

  Release: Bionic+ only of course. I think we should at least demote
  from main and may want to consider removing entirely.

  reverse-depends src:system-config-kickstart
  No reverse dependencies found
  reverse-depends -b src:system-config-kickstart
  No reverse dependencies found

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