This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-release-upgrader - 1:17.10.8
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ubuntu-release-upgrader (1:17.10.8) artful; urgency=medium
* data/removal_blacklist.cfg: unblacklist unity so that release upgrades to
17.10 for systems without universe enabled can proceed. (LP:
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Title:
upgrade to 17.10 uncalculable without universe
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This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-release-upgrader - 1:17.10.8
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ubuntu-release-upgrader (1:17.10.8) artful; urgency=medium
* data/removal_blacklist.cfg: unblacklist unity so that release upgrades to
17.10 for systems without universe enabled can proceed. (LP:
This does not fix the issue I had as per Bug #1726347
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Title:
upgrade to 17.10 uncalculable without universe
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I then went ahead and re-enabled universe and multiverse and run an
upgrade with 'do-release-upgrade -p'. I can confirm that in this
situation unity stayed installed.
bdmurray@clean-zesty-amd64:~$ apt-cache policy unity
unity:
Installed: 7.5.0+17.10.20171010-0ubuntu1
Candidate:
I tested the case with universe and multiverse disabled, using 'do-
release-upgrade -p' and can confirm the release upgrade was successfully
calculated.
2017-10-24 08:43:33,691 INFO Using config files '['./DistUpgrade.cfg']'
2017-10-24 08:43:33,691 INFO uname information: 'Linux clean-zesty-amd64
Hello 900hailwood, or anyone else affected,
Accepted ubuntu-release-upgrader into artful-proposed. The package will
build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source
/ubuntu-release-upgrader/1:17.10.8 in a few hours, and then in the
-proposed repository.
Please help us by
] On Behalf Of Brian
Murray
Sent: 23 October, 2017 16:36
To: galen.a.mo...@gmail.com
Subject: [Bug 1725605] Re: upgrade to 17.10 uncalculable without universe
One way to workaround this would be to remove unity before performing
the distribution upgrade. Another would be to switch to temporary
** Also affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Artful)
Importance: Medium
Assignee: Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Status: Triaged
** Description changed:
+ [Impact]
+ It is not possible for systems without universe enabled and unity installed
(a default package) to upgrade to
One way to workaround this would be to remove unity before performing
the distribution upgrade. Another would be to switch to temporary
directory created by the release upgrader in /tmp/ and edit the file
removal_blacklist.cfg so that unity is no longer listed and then
manually run the release
The sources.list file from this system does not have universe enabled
and unity has been demoted to universe so the upgrader calculates it as
a removal which is blacklisted so then the upgrade does not proceed.
** Summary changed:
- no update possible towards 17.10
+ upgrade to 17.10
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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