[Bug 996916] Re: postgresql packages in the removal blacklist making it hard to upgrade

[Rene Schickbauer]

Removing pogresql extensions (plugins) only CHANGES the nature of the
problem, instead of solving it!

If you remove the old postgis version, but it's used in one of the
databases, programs like pg_upgradecluster break.

This means, now a complete restore from a database backup is needed,
which is much slower and increases downtime by many hours.

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Title:
  postgresql packages in the removal blacklist making it hard to upgrade

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I have got this pop-up error message while updating from Ubuntu
  version 11.04 to 11.10:

  Could not calculate the upgrade

  An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
  The package 'postgresql-plperl-8.4' is marked for removal but it is in the removal blacklist.

   This can be caused by:
   * Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
   * Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
   * Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu

  If none of this applies, then please report this bug using the command
  'ubuntu-bug update-manager' in a terminal.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.150.5.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-15.59-generic 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-15-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed May  9 15:17:02 2012
  GConfNonDefault:
   /apps/update-manager/check_new_release_ignore=oneiric
   /apps/update-manager/first_run=false
   /apps/update-manager/window_size=(600,600)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2012-05-09 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog:
   
  VarLogDistupgradeHistorylog:
   
  VarLogDistupgradeSystemstatetargz:
   
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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