Upgrade to 11.10 claims to remove vlc

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Sebastian Geiger wrote on 02/08/11 17:18:
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> I just upgraded to 11.10. On the upgrade summary I was told that the
> upgrade would later remove the Vlc package as one of 21 packages that
> were about to be removed after the upgrade. Just now the upgrade has
> run through and vlc was not among the packages to be removed anymore.
> Im currious why the upgrade process was telling me that vlc was going
> to be removed and then didnt remove it after the upgrade finished.
>...

I had a similar problem: the 11.04 upgrade said that it would remove
openoffice.org-math without installing libreoffice-math, but then did
install libreoffice-math after all. <http://launchpad.net/bugs/764817>

This kind of bug is hard to reproduce, because reinstalling takes a long
time. But if you have some time for testing, you might try this:

<mvo> so to reproduce all you need to do is to run apt-clone restore
/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz
/some/destination/that/will/become/a/chroot
<mvo> then chroot to that destination and run the upgrade
<mvo> I admit its a bit time consuiming, but it should allow exact
reproducion of the issue

Cheers
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