Generally the way to do this in Debian at least would be something like 1. move the removed dependencies/recommends to a ubuntu-desktop-legacy metapackage/seed 2. recommend that so it is installed 3. one cycle later, drop the recommends (or move it to suggests to keep it installed on upgrades*)
(*) In Ubuntu, ubuntu-release-upgrader removes Suggests Adding the recommends for a month to transition devel users using apt, and then removing it again and make u-r-u install it could make sense. On the other hand we also kind of strive to have upgraded users have the same experience (which is why we removed suggested-only packages in the first place), so weigh the benefits. One thing to note is APT's metapackage handling: 1. apt remove metapackage keeps dependencies automatically installed 2. apt install foo where foo conflicts with metapackage causes metapackage to be removed and the manual bit to transition to the dependencies. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2026637 Title: [mantic] many useful apps are marked for auto removal Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Today update want remove a lot of apps. This happens on two systems installed from ISO dated 2023-06-07 and 2023-05-21 corrado@corrado-n03-mm-0607:~$ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade [sudo] password for corrado: Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic InRelease Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic-updates InRelease Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic-backports InRelease Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic-security InRelease Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done All packages are up to date. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: aisleriot baobab branding-ubuntu cheese cheese-common file-roller gir1.2-rb-3.0 gnome-mahjongg gnome-mines gnome-sudoku gnome-video-effects gstreamer1.0-clutter-3.0 guile-3.0-libs libavahi-ui-gtk3-0 libcairomm-1.16-1 libcdr-0.1-1 libchamplain-0.12-0 libchamplain-gtk-0.12-0 libcheese-gtk25 libcheese8 libclutter-gst-3.0-0 libdmapsharing-4.0-3 libevent-2.1-7 libfreehand-0.1-1 libfreerdp-client2-2 libglibmm-2.68-1 libgnome-games-support-1-3 libgnome-games-support-common libgpod-common libgpod4 libgtkmm-4.0-0 libgupnp-igd-1.0-4 libixml10 liblc3-0 libminiupnpc17 libmspub-0.1-1 libmujs2 libnatpmp1 libpagemaker-0.0-0 libpangomm-2.48-1 libqqwing2v5 libreoffice-calc libreoffice-draw libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-gtk3 libreoffice-impress librhythmbox-core10 libsdl-image1.2 libsdl1.2debian libsgutils2-1.46-2 libsigc++-3.0-0 libupnp13 libvisio-0.1-1 lp-solve media-player-info python3-mako python3-renderpm python3-reportlab-accel remmina remmina-common remmina-plugin-rdp remmina-plugin-secret remmina-plugin-vnc rhythmbox rhythmbox-data rhythmbox-plugin-alternative-toolbar rhythmbox-plugins shotwell shotwell-common simple-scan transmission-common transmission-gtk Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. corrado@corrado-n03-mm-0607: ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10 Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.505 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.3.0-7.7-generic 6.3.5 Uname: Linux 6.3.0-7-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: pass CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sun Jul 9 08:53:45 2023 InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-06-07 (31 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 23.10 "Mantic Minotaur" - Daily amd64 (20230607) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 PATH=(custom, no user) SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=xterm-256color XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/2026637/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp