On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 4:51 AM Lucas Moura <lucas.mo...@canonical.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Recently, we have received a request about moving ubuntu-advantage-tools from > Depends to Recommends on ubuntu-minimal and update-manager as can be seen > here: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-advantage-tools/+bug/1950692 > > The problem today of ubuntu-advantage-tools sitting on Depends is that > removing this package will also trigger the removal of several core Ubuntu > packages on the system as well.
This isn't the *only* problem, as on do-release-upgrade all those packages will be silently re-installed, e.g.: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netplan.io/+bug/1845234 I'd support the change to Recommends for ubuntu-advantage-tools, and also netplan.io. > > We want to ask for opinions of this change to other Ubuntu developers, to see > if we are not missing any other aspect around the original decision to > include the package into Depends. > > Best regards, > Lucas Moura > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
