[Bug 1898729] [NEW] shim can end up being removed

[Iain Lane]

Public bug reported:

I just did a set of package updates in focal that ended up with shim
shim-signed mokutil being autoremoved.

I rebooted without noticing, and had to manually recover the system
thereafter. :(

Julian says there was a period of time where these were marked auto. I
suppose that I installed during this window, and now some dependency
change meant that as far as apt was concerned they weren't required any
more.

Can we please consider never proposing these packages for autoremoval?
apt has NeverAutoRemove for this which could be used, or some other
appropriate method.

** Affects: apt (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: shim (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: rls-ff-incoming

** Also affects: shim (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  shim can end up being removed

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in shim package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I just did a set of package updates in focal that ended up with shim
  shim-signed mokutil being autoremoved.

  I rebooted without noticing, and had to manually recover the system
  thereafter. :(

  Julian says there was a period of time where these were marked auto. I
  suppose that I installed during this window, and now some dependency
  change meant that as far as apt was concerned they weren't required
  any more.

  Can we please consider never proposing these packages for autoremoval?
  apt has NeverAutoRemove for this which could be used, or some other
  appropriate method.

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