[Bug 954939] Re: Xubuntu 10.04 to 12.04 upgrade installs unity and gnome

[Martin Pitt]

In that log, the indicator-messages recommends are resolved much earlier
than the xubuntu-desktop ones, so xfce4-indicator-plugin gets installed
too late.

We could change indicator-messages to not have indicator-applet as a
preferred recommendation, but I don't see how to change it to be robust,
working, and avoiding this.

I think a better approach is to drop the gnome-panel dependency from
indicator-applet. It doesn't seem necessary at all. Ken, what do you
think?

** No longer affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)

** Also affects: indicator-applet (Ubuntu Precise)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: indicator-applet (Ubuntu Precise)
   Importance: Undecided => High

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Title:
  Xubuntu 10.04 to 12.04 upgrade installs unity and gnome

Status in “indicator-applet” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “indicator-applet” source package in Precise:
  New

Bug description:
  Hi,

  I'm doing an upgrade test in a vm from Xubuntu 10.04 (up-to-date) to
  12.04 (today, 2012-03-14), and what update-manager proposes me is a
  bit messy: 600+ new packages to install, including unity and gnome
  sessions, which obviously I don't want on Xubuntu (and the bandwidth
  waste...).

  (Hopefully apport will DTRT and attach the correct logs...)

  From a quick look at apt.log, the trigger for that seems to be:

  >      Installing indicator-applet as Recommande of indicator-messages

  But we already recommend a provider of 'indicator-renderer' in
  xubuntu-desktop:

  >  new important dependency: xfce4-indicator-plugin:amd64
  >  Installing xfce4-indicator-plugin as Recommande of xubuntu-desktop

  ... not sure why update-manager chooses to install *both* of them.

  Because of that, we have a nice cascading effect:

  >       Installing gnome-panel as Dépend of indicator-applet

  [...]

  >          Installing gnome-applets as Recommande of gnome-panel

  [...]

  >          Installing gnome-session as Recommande of gnome-panel

  [...]

  >            Installing unity as Recommande of gnome-session

  I guess you get the idea. ;-)
  Thanks.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.134.12.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-39.86-generic 2.6.32.56+drm33.22
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-39-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Mar 14 12:28:39 2012
  GConfNonDefault:
   /apps/update-manager/check_new_release_ignore=
   /apps/update-manager/first_run=false
   /apps/update-manager/show_details=false
   /apps/update-manager/show_versions=false
   /apps/update-manager/window_size=(600,524)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 10.04.2 "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20110215.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=fr_FR.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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