Decide what to do wrt. Synaptic
The synaptic package manager was recently removed from buster:
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1037065/synaptic-removed-from-testing/
This is due to a series of RC bug reports:
- https://bugs.debian.org/818366
- https://bugs.debian.org/824122
- https://bugs.debian.org/872553
- https://bugs.debian.org/897348
All of those are mostly about synaptic’s failure to work under Wayland. This has to be confirmed, but discussions during the BSP at Mozilla’s seemed to indicate we might get synaptic back in testing (in time for buster).
For now, it’s getting pulled from sid so that we can build and test the
feature/buster branch; of course it’s possible to adapt ASP to use a
different package manager, but that might require more than the few
minutes just spent implementing the change to
config/chroot_apt/preferences…
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Original created by @CyrilBrulebois on 16615 (Redmine)