I would think that it would be a great idea to provide for that by automated backup of the PPA file during an upgrade and without the conflicting PPA , this can be bashsc to ask the user to provide permitted action with full explanation it would stop this from being an issue, this is a bug that seems to have been ignored
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018, 21:40 Brian Murray <br...@ubuntu.com wrote: > Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make > Ubuntu better. The error that you are a reporting is a conflict between > packages from the official Ubuntu archive and packages from a PPA. To > resolve this situation please deactivate PPAs using the tool 'ppa-purge' > which is provided by the ppa-purge package. Then try performing the > release upgrade again. Thanks in advance! > > ** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Invalid > > ** Tags added: ppa-conflict > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1805709 > > Title: > update bugged out > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1805709/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1805709 Title: update bugged out To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1805709/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs