[Bug 1798992] Re: Fresh desktop installation has packages pending autoremoval, pending updates

[Tom Reynolds]

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1801629
   direct dependencies of ubiquity should not be autoremovable

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Title:
  Fresh minimal desktop installation has packages pending autoremoval,
  pending updates

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Expected outcome:
  After installation, no packages should pend autoremoval (they should have been apt --purge autoremove'd during the installation) and (if 'install updates during installation' option is left enabled during installation) there should be no pending updates.

  Actual outcome:
  Doing a 'minimal' (set of installed packages) subiquity installation of 18.10 with the (default) 'download updates while installing' option left enabled, you end up with many packages pending autoremoval, as well as pending updates. See below for apt CLI output.

  To do:
  Please consider reviewing / updating the test cases to improve upon this for 19.04 and later. Thank you.

  ---

  Apt CLI output:

  root at x:~# apt update
  Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-security InRelease
  Hit:2 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic InRelease
  Hit:3 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-updates InRelease
  Hit:4 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-backports InRelease
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  4 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
  root at x:~# apt full-upgrade
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  Calculating upgrade... Done
  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    fonts-liberation2 fonts-opensymbol gir1.2-geocodeglib-1.0
    gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0 gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0 gir1.2-gudev-1.0
    gir1.2-udisks-2.0 grilo-plugins-0.3-base guile-2.2-libs
    libboost-date-time1.67.0 libboost-filesystem1.67.0 libboost-iostreams1.67.0
    libboost-locale1.67.0 libcdr-0.1-1 libclucene-contribs1v5 libclucene-core1v5
    libcmis-0.5-5v5 libcolamd2 libcurl4 libdazzle-1.0-0 libe-book-0.1-1 libeot0
    libepubgen-0.1-1 libetonyek-0.1-1 libevent-2.1-6 libexiv2-14
    libfreerdp-client2-2 libfreerdp2-2 libgc1c2 libgee-0.8-2 libgexiv2-2
    libgom-1.0-0 libgpgmepp6 libgpod-common libgpod4 liblangtag-common
    liblangtag1 liblirc-client0 liblua5.3-0 libmediaart-2.0-0 libminiupnpc17
    libmspub-0.1-1 libodfgen-0.1-1 libqqwing2v5 libraw16 librevenge-0.0-0
    libsgutils2-2 libssh-4 libsuitesparseconfig5 libvncclient1 libwinpr2-2
    libxapian30 libxmlsec1 libxmlsec1-nss lp-solve media-player-info
    python3-mako python3-markupsafe syslinux syslinux-common syslinux-legacy
    usb-creator-common
  Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    gnome-software gnome-software-common gnome-software-plugin-snap
    ubuntu-software
  4 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 0 B/3.036 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 3.072 B of additional disk space will be used.
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