Dist-upgrade from Gutsy to Hardy: losing packages
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
I lost some packages during a dist-upgrade update that I believe I shouldn't have.
I use some additional repositories like medibuntu and backports. These extra repositories have newer versions of some packages that are in the main ubuntu repositories. Dist-upgrade removes the extra repositories before the upgrade and drops packages that are both in core repositories and the extra repositories. I think this behaviour is undesirable.
Here is a specific example that probably applies to other packages too. Take the vim package. Adding the extra repositories gave me a newer version of vim. After the dist-upgrade to Hardy vim was behaving strangely and I couldn't work out what was going on. I lost a couple of hours figuring out whether new vim had bugs. It turned out vim was dropped in the upgrade and I was left running vim-tiny. dist-upgrade had decided it wasn't to upgrade vim.
I would suggest that normal behaviour is: if an installed package is both in the core repositores and in the extra repositories it should not be dropped during dist-upgrade.
Thanks for reporting this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better.
Could you please provide the files in the directory "/var/log/ dist-upgrade"
Thanks