Software updater snuck in a package that is unwanted

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Fri Oct 20 22:52:43 UTC 2017


On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 06:58:07PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:04:23 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> >This is false.  Only new recommends are installed by default during a
> >dist-upgrade, not existing recommends that have been removed.
> 
> Ok, this might work for this meta package, but it doesn't work if you
> have got https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/linux-lowlatency installed
> and then make a release upgrade, since the dependency chain
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/linux-image-lowlatency ,
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/linux-image-4.4.0-97-lowlatency does
> reinstall grub. Maybe because the kernel is considered as new, however,

Each individual linux-image-*-lowlatency would indeed count as a new
package for this purpose, and by default apt therefore marks all its
Recommends for installation; whereas when upgrading an existing package
it only marks newly-added Recommends for installation.

This is a derailing of the topic, and is not relevant to the case of
ubuntu-mate-{core,desktop}.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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