Public bug reported: When doing dist-upgrade from (fully patched) 10.04 LTS x64 "Lucid" to 12.04 LTS x64 "Precise" (beta1) you are warned;
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! lzma (due to dpkg) I should note that the actual steps I followed from 10.04 were; source set to "lucid" upgrade dist-upgrade change sources to "precise" upgrade dist-upgrade ** Affects: dpkg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Description changed: - When doing dist-upgrade from (fully patched) 10.04 LTS x64 "Lucid" to + When doing dist-upgrade from (fully patched) 10.04 LTS x64 "Lucid" to 12.04 LTS x64 "Precise" (beta1) you are warned; - <code>WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed + WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! - lzma (due to dpkg)</code> + lzma (due to dpkg) ** Summary changed: - Essential packages will be removedlzma (due to dpkg) when doing dist-upgrade + Essential packages will be removed "lzma (due to dpkg)" when doing dist-upgrade -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/944452 Title: Essential packages will be removed "lzma (due to dpkg)" when doing dist-upgrade To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/944452/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs