[Bug 1637466] Re: do-release-upgrade removed system-config-printer-gnome during 16.04 -> 16.10 upgrade

[Jeremy Bicha]

** Description changed:

- I've a freshly-installed Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.1 LTS system that I upgraded
- to 16.10 using 'sudo do-release-upgrade' in a terminal[*].  The upgrade
- process removed system-config-printer-gnome, which I've discovered
- today, when my attempts to configure a new printer failed with an
- unhelpful error message.
+ Impact
+ =======
+ Users who upgraded Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS to Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 using do-release-upgrade (update-manager too?) had system-config-printer-gnome uninstalled. system-config-printer-gnome is required for the Printers panel of the Settings app to work.
+ 
+ Test Case
+ =========
+ Ensure that gnome-control-center depends on system-config-printer-gnome.
+ 
+ Regression Potential
+ ====================
+ Unless someone has a reason to not want system-config-printer-gnome installed, there doesn't seem to be any regression potential here.
+ 
+ Other Info
+ ==========
+ I (jbicha) am not applying this change to zesty now, because I want to merge system-config-printer with Debian first so that gnome-control-center can depend on system-config-printer-common instead of system-confg-printer-gnome.
+ 
+ 
+ Original Bug Report
+ ===================
+ I've a freshly-installed Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.1 LTS system that I upgraded to 16.10 using 'sudo do-release-upgrade' in a terminal[*].  The upgrade process removed system-config-printer-gnome, which I've discovered today, when my attempts to configure a new printer failed with an unhelpful error message.
  
  /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log (and I hope ubuntu-bug will attach it to
  this bug) indicates that system-config-printer-gnome was removed because
  (the old version of) it depended on packagekit-system-interface, which
  is not in yakkety.
  
  [*] because six months earlier when I used the GUI update-manager to
  upgrade an Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 system to 16.04 LTS I had a lot of pain
  related to the GUI bits (the screensaver-won't-unlock-post-gnome-shell-
  upgrade bug, and the update-manager-UI-freezes-on-ctrl-shift-I bug).
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:16.10.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-26.28-generic 4.8.0
  Uname: Linux 4.8.0-26-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl
  ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Fri Oct 28 13:51:42 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-09-10 (48 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160720)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-10-15 (12 days ago)

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Title:
  do-release-upgrade removed system-config-printer-gnome during 16.04 ->
  16.10 upgrade

Status in Ubuntu GNOME:
  New
Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in gnome-control-center source package in Yakkety:
  In Progress
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader source package in Yakkety:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Impact
  =======
  Users who upgraded Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS to Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 using do-release-upgrade (update-manager too?) had system-config-printer-gnome uninstalled. system-config-printer-gnome is required for the Printers panel of the Settings app to work.

  Test Case
  =========
  Ensure that gnome-control-center depends on system-config-printer-gnome.

  Regression Potential
  ====================
  Unless someone has a reason to not want system-config-printer-gnome installed, there doesn't seem to be any regression potential here.

  Other Info
  ==========
  I (jbicha) am not applying this change to zesty now, because I want to merge system-config-printer with Debian first so that gnome-control-center can depend on system-config-printer-common instead of system-confg-printer-gnome.

  
  Original Bug Report
  ===================
  I've a freshly-installed Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.1 LTS system that I upgraded to 16.10 using 'sudo do-release-upgrade' in a terminal[*].  The upgrade process removed system-config-printer-gnome, which I've discovered today, when my attempts to configure a new printer failed with an unhelpful error message.

  /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log (and I hope ubuntu-bug will attach it to
  this bug) indicates that system-config-printer-gnome was removed
  because (the old version of) it depended on packagekit-system-
  interface, which is not in yakkety.

  [*] because six months earlier when I used the GUI update-manager to
  upgrade an Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 system to 16.04 LTS I had a lot of pain
  related to the GUI bits (the screensaver-won't-unlock-post-gnome-
  shell-upgrade bug, and the update-manager-UI-freezes-on-ctrl-shift-I
  bug).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:16.10.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-26.28-generic 4.8.0
  Uname: Linux 4.8.0-26-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl
  ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Fri Oct 28 13:51:42 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-09-10 (48 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160720)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-10-15 (12 days ago)

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