Public bug reported:

Steps to reproduce:

lxc launch ubuntu:focal reproducer
lxc exec reproducer bash
do-release-upgrade -d

Expected: no Postfix debconf prompt
Actual: Postfix debconf prompt

This is bad because there's a debconf prompt at all, but also that users
don't really know how to respond to this one because they're not the
ones demanding an MTA.

Why is Postfix being pulled in on this upgrade? After the upgrade, I see
that the only thing that Recommends default-mta | mail-transport-agent
is popularity-contest, so I think this package is the culprit.

In Focal, was seeded in the standard seed which is why it was installed.
However, the version in Focal does not have this Recommends.

In Jammy, it is no longer seeded (https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
core-dev/ubuntu-
seeds/+git/platform/commit/standard?id=82c97be2eee777cb2f579474259cf86e51fe3a8f)
but since it was installed previously, the upgrade causes Postfix to get
installed during the upgrade process.

A possible solution is to remove the Recommends in an Ubuntu delta.

** Affects: popularity-contest (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: rls-jj-incoming

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  Upgrades from Focal to Jammy pull in Postfix

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