[Bug 600348] Re: update-manager always wants to uninstall xscreensaver

[David Grossberg]

I'd just like to add that that this also affects KDE users.  In my
opinion Xscreensaver is simply better in every way than both the KDE and
Gnome implementations, so if this can be fixed it would make upgrades a
bet less of an annoyance.

I know this isn't useful info, but I tried using /etc/apt/preferences
pinning on the xscreensaver package (no version, just o=Ubuntu) to a
priority of 2001, and it didn't help any, the upgrade still wants to
remove it.  Seems like that should make some difference to me, but I'm
not apt.

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Title:
  update-manager always wants to uninstall xscreensaver

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

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  It's not fun to use synaptic because update-manager always wants to
  remove xcreensaver which I use because its 'xscreensaver-command'
  executable is useful for watching various changes that occur with
  screensaver within a script which adjusts my Acer AL1917 monitor's
  display based on the changes.  The monitor is an odd monitor that
  itself tries to adjust its display in several instances and leaves the
  display uncentered, thus the need for the script.  the gnome-
  screensaver-command does not allow me to watch the changes to the
  screensaver.

  Please have update-manager not always want to remove xscreensaver.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: update-manager 1:0.142.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-6.8-generic 2.6.35-rc3
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-6-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Jun 30 14:54:29 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager

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