Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: update-manager
I lost some packages during a dist-upgrade update that I believe I
shouldn't have.
I use some additional repositories like medibuntu and backports. These
extra repositories have newer versions of some packages that are in the
main ubuntu repositories. Dist-upgrade removes the extra repositories
before the upgrade and drops packages that are both in core repositories
and the extra repositories. I think this behaviour is undesirable.
Here is a specific example that probably applies to other packages too.
Take the vim package. Adding the extra repositories gave me a newer
version of vim. After the dist-upgrade to Hardy vim was behaving
strangely and I couldn't work out what was going on. I lost a couple of
hours figuring out whether new vim had bugs. It turned out vim was
dropped in the upgrade and I was left running vim-tiny. dist-upgrade
had decided it wasn't to upgrade vim.
I would suggest that normal behaviour is: if an installed package is
both in the core repositores and in the extra repositories it should not
be dropped during dist-upgrade.
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Dist-upgrade from Gutsy to Hardy: losing packages
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/229508
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