[Bug 1768648] [NEW] Bionic obsoletes sbackup, makes restore impossible

[Simon Lambourn]

Public bug reported:

With no warning in the release notes (as far as I could see), upgrading to Bionic has removed and prevented re-installation of Simple Backup, sbackup.   
A message "Removed, Core functionality" or something similar, was presented in the "remove packages" detail screen.

However this seems to prevent restoration of any backups created by
Simple Backup.   So not only do users have to configure a different
backup solution, they have also lost access to all their backup history.

Was this considered, and if so is there some guidance available to
affected users?   If not, there probably should be, at least to recover
or migrate the backups.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.17
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed May  2 21:03:32 2018
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-05-02 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic dist-upgrade

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Title:
  Bionic obsoletes sbackup, makes restore impossible

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  With no warning in the release notes (as far as I could see), upgrading to Bionic has removed and prevented re-installation of Simple Backup, sbackup.   
  A message "Removed, Core functionality" or something similar, was presented in the "remove packages" detail screen.

  However this seems to prevent restoration of any backups created by
  Simple Backup.   So not only do users have to configure a different
  backup solution, they have also lost access to all their backup
  history.

  Was this considered, and if so is there some guidance available to
  affected users?   If not, there probably should be, at least to
  recover or migrate the backups.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.17
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Wed May  2 21:03:32 2018
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-05-02 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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