[Bug 574436] Re: Third party software is uninstalled on upgrade

[Alexey Feldgendler]

Any  hope of backporting this into other releases?

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Title:
  Third party software is uninstalled on upgrade

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  Steps to reproduce:

  1. Install opera via a .deb package downloaded from www.opera.com or snapshots.opera.com
  2. Upgrade Ubuntu from 9.10 to 10.04

  Expected result:

  Opera is installed and available to use.

  Actual result:

  Opera is marked as obsolete and uninstalled

  Notes: It would seem that the Opera repository (http://deb.opera.com/)
  is disabled within "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera.list" on upgrade.
  During the final updrage step Opera is then interpreted as being
  obsolete, due to the fact that it was listed in the APT sources and is
  no longer. As such it is actually uninstalled, thus  leaving an Opera
  user without his/her favoured browser. Although I have not yet
  investigated further I would guess that all software provided
  exclusively by third party repositories will get similarly removed in
  this way. I suspect it is highly unlikely this is what a user would
  want or expect.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.134.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon May  3 14:21:47 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_GB.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager

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