[Bug 401548] Re: doing a release upgrade shouldn't uninstall stuff from 3rd party repositories

[Tim]

Cleaning out old reports.  Please file a new one if this is still a problem in a current release.  Thanks.
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** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  doing a release upgrade shouldn't uninstall stuff from 3rd party
  repositories

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager-core

  There are a couple of problems I encountered, and all of them center on the behavior of a release upgrade when the user has 3rd party repositories enabled. For me, this involves the kde3 repository from intrepid to jaunty, but the problem is not with the repository, but with the way ubuntu handles it.
  1. Trying to do a release upgrade failed at first because "kubuntu-desktop-kde3" was on the list to be removed, yet it was also on the blacklist of packages that can't be removed. This message should just be a warning, because "removing obsolete packages" is not an essential part of the system upgrade, and in fact the default is not to remove them. (See 3) I had to removed kubuntu-desktop-kde3 in order to continue.
  2. On running a release upgrade, it wanted to remove packages from the repositories it disabled. This makes unhappy users. I didn't check to see whether this was all packages or just the ones automatically installed under kubuntu-desktop-kde3. 
  3. Just a nitpick, but running do-release-upgrade, near the end there's a prompt like "remove packages [yN] details [d]" where, unlike the rest, just pressing enter doesn't accept the default value. If it matters, I did choose d first.

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