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[Sebastien Bacher <seb128@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It was pointed some cycles ago that going with an hostile fork and
making it incompatible with the existing implementation would complicate
any transition and the adoption of the new stack, seems that's where we
are. Speaking from a Desktop perspective that's a transition that isn't
going to bring us much and that is more work than we want to sign for at
the moment, especially that the new stack lacks real world usage/testing
at the moment. We are going to stick to the original indicators stack
for main in cosmic

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Title:
  [MIR] libayatana-appindicator

Status in libayatana-appindicator package in Ubuntu:
  New

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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