Disable partial upgrades during a development release
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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aptdaemon (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
More and more people test devel release of Ubuntu. While we give adequate warnings on the risks of running ubuntu+1 releases sometimes it's not enough.
update-manager has a concept of a "partial upgrade" which seems to be more trouble than it's worth. Perhaps give the user a more descriptive set of options, something like:
a) Wait until later until the archive works itself out.
b) Install stuff, but don't remove anything
c) Do a partial upgrade (and perhaps a scary warning like apt does when you try to remove glibc. "Yes, I recognize that I could explode my machine, do it."
Or perhaps something like "Something bad has happened, go use apt-get" or something that makes it clear that update-manager is confused.
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Thanks for your bugreport.
This sounds like we should aim towards making them better by better protecting the user. The partial upgrade feature was added because of user requests, but I think its worthwhile having a much stronger checking before stuff gets removed.