To double check my logic I ran an upgrade of a stock Ubuntu desktop system from bionic to focal and immediately after the upgrade ran 'sudo apt-get autoremove'. The list of packages marked for removal are the same as the ones the release-upgrader suggested with my change.
bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-idl254bt$ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS" bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-idl254bt$ sudo apt-get autoremove Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: command-not-found-data diffstat gnome-software-common gsfonts guile-2.0-libs libalgorithm-diff-perl libalgorithm-merge-perl libappstream-glib8 libarchive-zip-perl libboost-filesystem1.65.1 libboost-system1.65.1 libcgi-pm-perl libclass-method-modifiers-perl libclass-xsaccessor-perl libclone-perl libcommon-sense-perl libcrypt-dev libdigest-bubblebabble-perl libenchant1c2a libexempi3 libexiv2-14 libfftw3-double3 libgmime-3.0-0 libgtksourceview-3.0-common libgweather-3-15 libindicator3-7 libip4tc0 libip6tc0 libitm1 libjson-xs-perl liblouis14 liblouisutdml8 liblwres160 libnet-domain-tld-perl libnetpbm10 liboauth0 libprotobuf10 libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib libraw16 libref-util-perl libref-util-xs-perl libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer libreoffice-style-galaxy librole-tiny-perl libssl1.0.0 libsub-quote-perl libtest-refcount-perl libtypes-serialiser-perl libunicode-utf8-perl linux-hwe-5.4-headers-5.4.0-45 linux-hwe-5.4-headers-5.4.0-47 linux-libc-dev manpages-dev python3-asn1crypto python3-oauth python3-simplegeneric python3-zope.interface qpdf xserver-xorg-input-all-hwe-18.04 xserver-xorg-legacy-hwe-18.04 xserver-xorg-video-ati-hwe-18.04 xserver-xorg-video-fbdev-hwe-18.04 xserver-xorg-video-qxl-hwe-18.04 xserver-xorg-video-radeon-hwe-18.04 xserver-xorg-video-vesa-hwe-18.04 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 66 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 214 MB disk space will be freed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1894919 Title: gnome-software-plugin-snap consider an unwanted removal for 20.04 ubuntu-desktop To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1894919/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
