** Description changed: More and more people test devel release of Ubuntu. While we give adequate warnings on the risks of running ubuntu+1 releases sometimes it's not enough. update-manager has a concept of a "partial upgrade" which seems to be more trouble than it's worth. Perhaps give the user a more descriptive set of options, something like: a) Wait until later until the archive works itself out. b) Install stuff, but don't remove anything c) Do a partial upgrade (and perhaps a scary warning like apt does when you try to remove glibc. "Yes, I recognize that I could explode my machine, do it." Or perhaps something like "Something bad has happened, go use apt-get" or something that makes it clear that update-manager is confused. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates#Installing>: "The selected updates should then install with the standard interface." <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwarePackageOperations#updating>: "If the new package conflicts with installed packages, a confirmation alert should appear: ‘“{title}” can’t be updated unless these items are - removed:’, with “Cancel” and “Update & Install” buttons, but otherwise + removed:’, with “Cancel” and “Remove & Update” buttons, but otherwise identical to the equivalent alert when installing a new package."
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