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@khurshid-alam, the problem is stuff in main that depends on ayatana,
and can't migrate until the archive is self-consistent.

I'm not asking to transition universe to ayatana (it can take all the
time needed, if somebody does the work), but rather asking to move
ayatana to main and appindicator to universe.

The appindicator package is badly maintained in Debian, and has a
considerable delta in Ubuntu, while the fork is maintained by the
upstream author in Debian, and will allow us to sync lots of packages
and ease the downstream maintain work.

If they can cohexist, I don't see what is the problem of having
appindicator in universe, and ayatana in main, unity can still use it.

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Title:
  [MIR] libayatana-appindicator

Status in libayatana-appindicator package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  [Availability]
  * Everywhere

  [Rationale]
  * Appindicator is dead, we should move it to universe and switch to the "better" and "supported" ayatana version
  [Security]
  * No security bugs found

  [Quality assurance]
  * Strongly maintained in Debian, lots of packages in main used to have deltas to drop and switch to appindicator, I think we will save a lot of work by just syncing stuff and not maintaining appindicator anymore (at least moving it to universe)
  [Dependencies]
  * All deps in main
  [Standards compliance]
  * New compat level
  * Maintained in sync with Debian
  * It builds a python2 bind, maybe we can just not MIR all binaries there
  [Maintenance]
  * Debian maintains it, and is doing a port to ayatana of all packages.

  [Background information]
  * I think we can also just MIR libayatana-appindicator3-1

  reverse-depends -c main src:libappindicator -r cosmic
  Reverse-Depends
  ===============
  * network-manager-gnome         (for libappindicator3-1)
  * remmina                       (for libappindicator3-1)
  * transmission-gtk              (for libappindicator3-1)

  all the three packages are now using ayatana in -proposed pocket

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