packages-to-remove dialog should allow user to toggle exceptions
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I think this is the right package to report this feature request against. I also searched update-manager bugs but couldn't find a duplicate.
On upgrading Ubuntu, after the new packages have been installed and configured, the user is presented with a dialog offering a (typically great) number of "old/obsolete" packages, and the only options are to either "Keep" or "Remove" them all.
Normally, it's a good idea to remove the old packages. In the case that the user wants to remove all of them except one, because whatever algorithm is behind this has a false positive, or for some other reason, this is not possible - it's either keep them all, or remove them all. It would be great if the list of packages had checkboxes where you could exempt certain packages from being kept/removed.
(In my case, on upgrading from Precise to Quantal, I would have liked to keep a self-installed package of an old/unmaintained application - bouml - that the release-upgrader wanted to remove.)
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Triaged |