Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: update-manager-core
There are a couple of problems I encountered, and all of them center on the
behavior of a release upgrade when the user has 3rd party repositories enabled.
For me, this involves the kde3 repository from intrepid to jaunty, but the
problem is not with the repository, but with the way ubuntu handles it.
1. Trying to do a release upgrade failed at first because
"kubuntu-desktop-kde3" was on the list to be removed, yet it was also on the
blacklist of packages that can't be removed. This message should just be a
warning, because "removing obsolete packages" is not an essential part of the
system upgrade, and in fact the default is not to remove them. (See 3) I had to
removed kubuntu-desktop-kde3 in order to continue.
2. On running a release upgrade, it wanted to remove packages from the
repositories it disabled. This makes unhappy users. I didn't check to see
whether this was all packages or just the ones automatically installed under
kubuntu-desktop-kde3.
3. Just a nitpick, but running do-release-upgrade, near the end there's a
prompt like "remove packages [yN] details [d]" where, unlike the rest, just
pressing enter doesn't accept the default value. If it matters, I did choose d
first.
** Affects: update-manager-core (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
--
doing a release upgrade shouldn't uninstall stuff from 3rd party repositories
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/401548
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
--
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
