Menu System Tools/Software Updater not working after, Lubuntu upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04

[Chris]

On Fri, 2018-08-24 at 20:04 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Freitag, den 24.08.2018, 12:45 -0500 schrieb Chris:
> >  
> > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/amd64/gksu/2.0.2-9ubuntu1
> > 
> > apt-cache policy gksu
> > gksu:
> >   Installed: 2.0.2-9ubuntu1
> >   Candidate: 2.0.2-9ubuntu1
> 
> the "Status" entry on that page says "superseded", that it was
> (briefly) available during the bionic dev cycle doesn't mean it is
> still there:
> 
> the page:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gksu
> 
> shows where it is actually still available and published in the
> archive
> 
> launchpad keeps old build data around for hysterical raisins ;) 
> 
> so you can still look up build logs and where and when a version was
> created but the only relevant publishing info is on the page i linked
> above ...
> 
> on systems where you did not use do-release-upgrade such packages
> will
> also not be removed (colin watson may correct me here, i might mis-
> remember), this is actually one of the purposes of the update-
> manager/do-release-upgrade, cleaning up obsolete packages.
> 
> ciao
> 	oli
My apologies, as usual I'm incorrect. I just know it works on my 18.04
which was upgraded last Thursday when I was notified that a new release
was available.

Back to lurking

-- 
Chris
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