I'm afraid we're getting into "I really can't remember" territory now. I suspect the upgrade path on this box is long enough that getting to the bottom of this will be tricky and probably futile. I have noticed bug 235574, which is a wishlist item asking for update-manager to give some indication of why a package is going to be removed, which I think would be useful.
-- Upgrade from Jaunty to Karmic removes Enigmail for no obvious reason https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/474857 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
