[Bug 430197] Re: Disable partial upgrades during a development release

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

** Description changed:

  More and more people test devel release of Ubuntu. While we give
  adequate warnings on the risks of running ubuntu+1 releases sometimes
  it's not enough.
  
  update-manager has a concept of a "partial upgrade" which seems to be
  more trouble than it's worth. Perhaps give the user a more descriptive
  set of options, something like:
  
  a) Wait until later until the archive works itself out.
  b) Install stuff, but don't remove anything
  c) Do a partial upgrade (and perhaps a scary warning like apt does when you try to remove glibc. "Yes, I recognize that I could explode my machine, do it."
  
  Or perhaps something like "Something bad has happened, go use apt-get"
  or something that makes it clear that update-manager is confused.
  
  <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates#Installing>: "The selected
  updates should then install with the standard interface."
  
  <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwarePackageOperations#updating>: "If the
  new package conflicts with installed packages, a confirmation alert
  should appear: ‘“{title}” can’t be updated unless these items are
- removed:’, with “Cancel” and “Update & Install” buttons, but otherwise
+ removed:’, with “Cancel” and “Remove & Update” buttons, but otherwise
  identical to the equivalent alert when installing a new package."

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Title:
  Disable partial upgrades during a development release

Status in “aptdaemon” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  More and more people test devel release of Ubuntu. While we give
  adequate warnings on the risks of running ubuntu+1 releases sometimes
  it's not enough.

  update-manager has a concept of a "partial upgrade" which seems to be
  more trouble than it's worth. Perhaps give the user a more descriptive
  set of options, something like:

  a) Wait until later until the archive works itself out.
  b) Install stuff, but don't remove anything
  c) Do a partial upgrade (and perhaps a scary warning like apt does when you try to remove glibc. "Yes, I recognize that I could explode my machine, do it."

  Or perhaps something like "Something bad has happened, go use apt-get"
  or something that makes it clear that update-manager is confused.

  <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates#Installing>: "The selected
  updates should then install with the standard interface."

  <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwarePackageOperations#updating>: "If the
  new package conflicts with installed packages, a confirmation alert
  should appear: ‘“{title}” can’t be updated unless these items are
  removed:’, with “Cancel” and “Remove & Update” buttons, but otherwise
  identical to the equivalent alert when installing a new package."

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