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

[Marius Gedminas]

Public bug reported:

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)

** Affects: ubuntu-gnome
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug dist-upgrade yakkety

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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 ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  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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