Release Upgrader

Merge lp://qastaging/~juliank/ubuntu-release-upgrader/suggests-not-important into lp://qastaging/ubuntu-release-upgrader

suggests-not-important
Merge into trunk

Proposed by Julian Andres Klode on 2018-03-19

Status:	Merged
Merged at revision:	3117
Proposed branch:	lp://qastaging/~juliank/ubuntu-release-upgrader/suggests-not-important
Merge into:	lp://qastaging/ubuntu-release-upgrader
Diff against target:	29 lines (+11/-0) 2 files modified DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py (+3/-0) debian/changelog (+8/-0)
To merge this branch:	bzr merge lp://qastaging/~juliank/ubuntu-release-upgrader/suggests-not-important
Related bugs:	Link a bug report

Reviewer	Review Type	Date Requested	Status
Brian Murray		2018-03-19	Approve on 2018-03-29
Review via email: mp+341655@code.qastaging.launchpad.net

Description of the change

Do not consider Suggests important, so automatically installed packages
that are not recommended or dependend on anymore are removed across a
dist upgrade (LP: #1725861).

Not tested whether it actually works, but it seems reasonable to assume so. Not sure how to test it.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2018-03-28:

This seems fine, but I'm testing it on a system that's been upgraded over multiple releases which when manually using the setting will autoremove a number of packages.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2018-03-29:

The "Remove (was auto installed)" list includes packages I'd seen when using apt autoremove with the setting in effect before the upgrade so it seems like its doing the right thing.

Another involved way to test would be to install zesty, upgrade to artful and then ensure "ubuntu-wallpapers-zesty" was removed.

review: Approve