Public bug reported: Purpose of gdebi is to allow installing packages from a file. However, it's been 6 years since apt supported installation from a file¹. Let's make it easier on both maintainers and the people who have to install/use `gdebi` and then may need to search nuances, like passing options to dpkg.
As far as I read gdebi man page, its functional seems fully covered by apt. The only thing I'm a bit in doubts about is the `root` option. But from my reading of docs, it seems that `gdebi --root=/foo myfile.deb` would be analogous to `apt install -o Dpkg::Options::="--root=/foo" ./myfile.deb`. So, my suggesttion: installing gdebi on currently supported releases should print a deprecation notice that explains how a user can install local files with `apt` instead. Then eventually remove gdebi from repositories. I tried contacting maintainers of gdebi to ask whether it's worth adding a deprecation notice, but haven't found any ways to do that, and so I went straight to creating a report here. 1: https://mvogt.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/apt-1-1-released/ ** Affects: gdebi (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Description changed: Purpose of gdebi is to allow installing packages from a file. However, it's been 6 years since apt supported installation from a file¹. Let's make it easier on both maintainers and the people who have to install/use `gdebi` and then may need to search nuances, like passing options to dpkg. As far as I read gdebi man page, its functional seems fully covered by apt. The only thing I'm a bit in doubts about is the `root` option. But from my reading of docs, it seems that `gdebi --root=/foo myfile.deb` would be analogous to `apt install -o Dpkg::Options::="--root=/foo" - myfile.deb`. + ./myfile.deb`. So, my suggesttion: installing gdebi on currently supported releases should print a deprecation notice that explains how a user can install local files with `apt` instead. Then eventually remove gdebi from repositories. I tried contacting maintainers of gdebi to ask whether it's worth adding a deprecation notice, but haven't found any ways to do that, and so I went straight to creating a report here. 1: https://mvogt.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/apt-1-1-released/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1910913 Title: Deprecating gdebi To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdebi/+bug/1910913/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
