[Bug 1765178] [NEW] Please remove libui-dialog-perl; open security vulnerability

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Please remove libui-dialog-perl and its reverse depends macchanger-gtk
from Ubuntu 18.04.

libui-dialog-perl was removed from Debian Testing in November 2016 for a
security bug originally reported in 2008. The bug was apparently fixed
in 1.13 but no one cares for this package.

I mean it could be trivially NMU'd in Debian, but… its only reverse
dependency is macchanger-gtk which was last uploaded in 2009.

macchanger-gtk is a simple perl gtk2 app with the source code partially
written in Spanish. The app doesn't use great English and is not
translated. The homepage listed in the Debian packaging no longer works.
The program needs to be either run as root or with gksu (a Recommends)
but that won't work with the Wayland session that Ubuntu will presumably
default to in 18.10.

** Affects: libui-dialog-perl (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: macchanger-gtk (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: bionic
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Please remove libui-dialog-perl; open security vulnerability
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1765178
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