[Bug 1889030] Re: Upgrade process uninstalled other-repo-packages

[Brian Murray]

During the distribution upgrade process there is an opportunity to view
the details of what will happen during the upgrade. Viewing the details
of the upgrade with the packages you have installed I discovered the
following information.

"Remove: idle-python3.7 libgcc1:i386 libldb1 libpango1.0-0 
  libpcre2-posix0 libpython-dev libpython-stdlib libqt4-dbus 
  libqt4-declarative libqt4-designer libqt4-help libqt4-network 
  libqt4-script libqt4-scripttools libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-mysql 
  libqt4-svg libqt4-test libqt4-xml libqt4-xmlpatterns 
  libqtassistantclient4 libqtcore4 libqtdbus4 libqtgui4 python 
  python-dev python-minimal python-pip python3-gdal python3-pyqt4 
  python3-qgis python3-qgis-common qdbus qgis qgis-plugin-grass 
  qgis-providers qt-at-spi uno-libs3"

I'm not sure if this meets your criteria for an explicit warning but the
information was presented during the upgrade process.

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Title:
  Upgrade process uninstalled other-repo-packages

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

Bug description:
  I had qgis installed from it's original repo (https://qgis.org/ubuntu,
  https://qgis.org/ubuntu-ltr).

  During the upgrade process from 19.10 to 20.04 the package got
  uninstalled.

  Expected
  (1) User installed software should not get automatically uninstalled
  (2) IF it is absolutely necessary to uninstall user-installed software, the user should get an EXPLICIT warning stating that the software is going to be removed. The explicit warning should be shown BEFORE doing the upgrade, so the user can decide if the upgrade is worth it.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:20.04.23
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-42.46-generic 5.4.44
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.4
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Mon Jul 27 13:15:39 2020
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: release-upgrade
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-07-24 (2 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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