[Bug 944452] Re: Essential packages will be removed "lzma (due to dpkg)" when doing dist-upgrade

[vincecate]

This is strange, it seems that while 
   apt-get dist-upgrade

gives me a warning that it is about to destroy my machine, when I do 
   apt-get upgrade

It starts working like everything is fine.   Hope it works...

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Title:
  Essential packages will be removed "lzma (due to dpkg)" when doing
  dist-upgrade

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

Bug description:
  When doing dist-upgrade from (fully patched) 10.04 LTS x64 "Lucid" to
  12.04 LTS x64 "Precise" (beta1) you are warned;

  WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
  This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
    lzma (due to dpkg)

  
  I should note that the actual steps I followed from 10.04 were;

  source set to "lucid"
  upgrade
  dist-upgrade
  change sources to "precise"
  upgrade
  dist-upgrade

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