on install- no indicator of progress for restoring packages

[ave]

So when I upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10, it gave me the option to update all existing software, which I checked.
I then sat back and watched as ubuntu installed. I was given great feedback on what was going on, (under the progress bar) until I got to the message "Restoring Previously installed packages."

(I guess that this is when it downloads restricted extras and the latest versions of all the software that's already on my computer, and probably will take a long time but I didn't realise that at the time. )

this process took 2 hours and during that time, the installer stopped giving feedback. it just sat on the same message for the entire 2 hours. I thought the pc had frozen and almost reset half a dozen times.

I'm marking this as a bug because the progress indicator stopped giving feedback, but I realise that it may have been designed like that. Either way it can make the experience confusing especially for new-comers.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Further to above comment also closing Papercuts task.