xenial dist-upgrader using wrong demotions list

[Brian Murray]

The file DistUpgrade.cfg.trusty, which is included in the dist-upgrade tarball, has Demotions set to demotions.cfg instead of demotions.cfg.trusty. The demotions.cfg file contains demotions from W -> X and demotions.cfg.trusty contains demotions from T -> X. Subsequently, some packages that were demoted between Trusty and Wily are not being considered as demotions for release upgrades to X and will be left installed on systems.

Test Case
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1) Install consolekit on a Trusty system
2) Run 'sudo do-release-upgrade --frontend DistUpgradeViewText'
3) Press 'd' for details when prompted
4) Observe consolekit does not appear in the list of "No longer supported" packages

To test the upgrade using the dist-upgrade tarball from proposed change step 2 to "sudo do-release-upgrade -p --frontend DistUpgradeViewText".

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

Hello Brian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ubuntu-release-upgrader into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/1:16.04.16 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

bdmurray@upgrade-trusty-amd64:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade -p --frontend DistUpgradeViewText

....

Fetching and installing the upgrade can take several hours. Once the
download has finished, the process cannot be canceled.

 Continue [yN] Details [d]d

No longer supported: consolekit empathy gcc-4.8-base gcc-4.9-base
  gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps ibus-pinyin
  libarchive-extract-perl liblog-message-simple-perl
  libmodule-pluggable-perl libpod-latex-perl libterm-ui-perl
  libtext-soundex-perl module-init-tools rhythmbox-plugin-magnatune
  software-center ssh-askpass-gnome telepathy-idle
  ubuntu-sso-client-qt ubuntu-wallpapers-trusty

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-release-upgrader - 1:16.04.16

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ubuntu-release-upgrader (1:16.04.16) xenial; urgency=medium

  * data/DistUpgrade.cfg.trusty: modify which demotions file is used for
    calculating the upgrade. (LP: #1611909)

 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Mon, 08 Aug 2016 09:30:40 -0700

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for ubuntu-release-upgrader has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.