Ubiquity is still installed after standard desktop 17.10 installation

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

This is the diff of filesystem.manifest-remove between zesty and artful. It shows that ubiquity has been removed from the manifest.

The difference in manifest-remove has been introduced with build 20170606.1 [1] It matches with the release of livecd-rootfs on the 6th and revno 1482 [2]

[1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-cdimage/+livefs/ubuntu/artful/ubuntu/+build/100107
[2] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/livecd-rootfs/trunk/revision/1482

diff of manifest-remove between builds 20170606 and 20170606.1

Right; the change comes from this change (essentially to add ubuntu-desktop as an install task). The problem from what I can tell is that ubiquity is not contained in that task, and somehow does show up at the install pass when building the live filesystem.

Back to the desktop team:

  Installing ubiquity-frontend-gtk as Recommends of indicator-datetime
    Installing ubiquity as Depends of ubiquity-frontend-gtk
      Installing libdebian-installer4 as Depends of ubiquity
      Installing libparted-fs-resize0 as Depends of ubiquity
      Installing ubiquity-ubuntu-artwork as Depends of ubiquity
      Installing ubiquity-casper as Depends of ubiquity
      Installing os-prober as Depends of ubiquity

Turns out this happens because indicator-datetime is seeded, but indicator-applet (the alternate Recommends from indicator-datetime) is in universe (and we don't build with universe).

(from indicator-datetime:)
Recommends: indicator-applet | indicator-renderer,

indicator-renderer is provided by ubiquity-frontend-gtk (due to the panel code, etc.), and ends up being picked to satisfy indicator-datetime's dependencies.

I see two ways to fix it, both of which are for the Desktop Team to resolve (as it requires some decision for the team):

 - MIR indicator-applet and seed it, so that it ends up satisfying the first part of indicator-datetime's deps (and other indicator packages')
 - unseed the indicators, remove them from ubuntu-desktop.

As far as I can tell they are not required in the GNOME Shell world, but that decision is not up to me to make.

Reassigning to ubuntu-meta, since that seems to be the most likely place to fix things (unseeding indicators), and I'm leaving this assigned to didrocks. Feel free to reassign to somebody else or change the task.

From <http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/germinate-output/ubuntu.artful/desktop>:

indicator-datetime | indicator-datetime | unity-greeter (Recommends) | Ubuntu Desktop Team <email address hidden> | 284772 | 1308

et al

I think they will drop off once we switch to gdm3, or at least at that point we'll see if there's another path keeping them on.

Ubiquity doesn't need it at all, so on that side it will be fine to remove.

Thanks for the investigation cyphermox!

Ok, I guess let's pend that on the ligthdm -> gdm switch and ensure we unseed it at that point.

I haven't done a test install recently. Is this fixed now?

No it is not fixed.

Actually, this is fixed with 20170830. I'm closing this report.