[Bug 1314616] Re: bitcoin to be maintained upstream in PPA: Replace distro archive "bitcoin" bitcoin with an empty dummy package

[Scott Howard]

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Micha Bailey <michabailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> What about 12.10? I know it EOLed a couple days ago, but 13.04 EOLed even
> earlier, from what I understand, if I'm not mistaken...

After I posted that I looked up:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

and saw that 12.04 and 13.10 are the only two we can SRU. 13.10 is EOL
in July, but if there is time we can take care of it now (although it
might take 1/2 of the time till july getting it approved)

Merge for precise has been posted. Someone can do saucy if they'd like
(needs to add a dummy .desktop file). I'll be busy and might not get to
it in time.

** Description changed:

+ [Impact]
+ 
  The Bitcoin utilities are a set of virtual-currency tools.  Going
  forward the upstream maintainers have expressed a wish to maintain
  'bitcoin' in a PPA; superseding the version in the main archives.  The
  'bitcoin' package has already been removed from 'trusty' and blacklisted
  from synching going forward.  This bug report covers earlier versions of
  Ubuntu, where it is intended to replace the in-archive versions with a
  dummy package directing users towards the PPA-maintained copy.
  
  See the mailing list discussions at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives
  /ubuntu-motu/2013-December/thread.html and
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2014-April/thread.html.
  
  In short: old versions of Bitcoin Core (as it is now known) are broken,
  not up to date on bug fixes, etc.
  
  http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=bitcoin&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
  shows that these old versions of the package are shipped in precise,
  raring, and saucy. In the past, I'm pretty sure it's also shown version
  0.6.something in quantal, but that appears to have disappeared from the
  search.
  
  My understanding from the ML discussions earlier is that it's impossible
  to remove a package from the package lists, but it could be replaced
  with an SRU by a dummy package that explains to the user why it's gone
  and prompts them to download the software either from the PPA
  (ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin) or the release binaries from bitcoin.org. This is
  what I'd like to request be done.
+ 
+ [Test Case]
+ 
+  * running bitcoind won't even connect to the network nor relay
+ transactions
+ 
+ [Regression Potential]
+ 
+  * we're removing the package

** Summary changed:

- bitcoin to be maintained upstream in PPA: Replace distro archive "bitcoin" bitcoin with an empty dummy package
+ [SRU] bitcoin to be maintained upstream in PPA: Replace distro archive "bitcoin" bitcoin with an empty dummy package

** Changed in: bitcoin (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Scott Howard (showard314) => (unassigned)

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Title:
  [SRU] bitcoin to be maintained upstream in PPA: Replace distro archive
  "bitcoin" bitcoin with an empty dummy package

Status in “bitcoin” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  The Bitcoin utilities are a set of virtual-currency tools.  Going
  forward the upstream maintainers have expressed a wish to maintain
  'bitcoin' in a PPA; superseding the version in the main archives.  The
  'bitcoin' package has already been removed from 'trusty' and
  blacklisted from synching going forward.  This bug report covers
  earlier versions of Ubuntu, where it is intended to replace the in-
  archive versions with a dummy package directing users towards the PPA-
  maintained copy.

  See the mailing list discussions at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives
  /ubuntu-motu/2013-December/thread.html and
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2014-April/thread.html.

  In short: old versions of Bitcoin Core (as it is now known) are
  broken, not up to date on bug fixes, etc.

  http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=bitcoin&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
  shows that these old versions of the package are shipped in precise,
  raring, and saucy. In the past, I'm pretty sure it's also shown
  version 0.6.something in quantal, but that appears to have disappeared
  from the search.

  My understanding from the ML discussions earlier is that it's
  impossible to remove a package from the package lists, but it could be
  replaced with an SRU by a dummy package that explains to the user why
  it's gone and prompts them to download the software either from the
  PPA (ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin) or the release binaries from bitcoin.org.
  This is what I'd like to request be done.

  [Test Case]

   * running bitcoind won't even connect to the network nor relay
  transactions

  [Regression Potential]

   * we're removing the package

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