[Bug 1703620] [NEW] Remove blktap/blktap-dkms from artful

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This report is for requesting to remove blktap and blktap-dkms (source
and binary packages) from the archive in Artful/17.10 and going forward.
The rational is that the only actual user was the open xen server (Xen
Cloud Platform / XCP) which was removed from Debian and Ubuntu[1]. The
Xen hypervisor build in Ubuntu (and Debian) has the blktap support
disabled (both blktap1 and blktap2) and also this driver looks to be
considered unmaintained upsream[2]. Because of this blktap-dkms usually
breaks whenever moving to a newer kernel version. It was made compiling
but lacking XCP there was no way to really test functionality.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cloud.openstack.devel/16323
[2] https://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-08/msg02633.html

All packages seem to rdepend only on themselves:

blktap produces:
- blktap-dev
  reverse-depends (-b)
  - none (none)
- blktap-utils
  - none (none)
- libvhd0
  - blktap-dev, blktap-utils, libvhdio-2.0.90 (none)
- libvhdio-2.0.90
  - blktap-dev, blktap-utils (none)
- libblktapctl0
  - blktap-dev, blktap-utils (none)

blktap-dkms produces
- blktap-dkms
  reverse-depends (-b)
  - blktap-utils (none)

** Affects: blktap (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: blktap-dkms (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Remove blktap/blktap-dkms from artful
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1703620
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