Hi Jonathan and Dan: > I don't think either apt nor snap auto-updates will handle this.
I don't think so either, and nor will manual snap updates ("snap refresh" command). My assumption is that deb-to-snap and snap-to-deb transitions are limited to development releases. It would be very surprising to have such transitions happen once a release is out, wouldn't it? But then again I don't know. Canonical's Marcus Tomlinson, who implemented the special deb-to-snap /snap-to-deb logic in update-manager to fix bug 1868409 and bug 1872958, could tell us more, and let us know if we now need to do more than run apt to keep our systems up-to-date. But I'm not sure how to contact him or his team. This bug, or Launchpad in general, don't seem like the right place, as it's not a bug. Perhaps a mailing list (which one?), the Freenode IRC network (which channel?), Ubuntu Discourse or Ask Ubuntu are better places for this question. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to appstream in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1861631 Title: "The AppStream system cache was updated, but some components were ignored. Refer to the verbose log for more information." Status in appstream package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in gnome-software package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: `apt-get update` and the nightly `apticron --cron` job are reporting: "The AppStream system cache was updated, but some components were ignored. Refer to the verbose log for more information." This is pretty much meaningless to most people who have no idea what AppStream is and what "verbose log" is being referred to. I dug around and managed to discover `appstreamcli refresh-cache --force --verbose`, whose output is attached. I don't know what the "bad" output is or how to fix it. All I know is that I hope Focal isn't going to be generating this message when it ships, because it isn't going to make sense to most people and most people won't know how to fix it and it causes annoying emails from apticron every night. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: appstream 0.12.10-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-12.15-generic 5.4.8 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu16 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sun Feb 2 16:01:24 2020 InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-08-16 (170 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Release amd64 (20190416) SourcePackage: appstream UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-01-31 (2 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appstream/+bug/1861631/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp