[Bug 1898729] Re: shim can end up being removed

[Steve Langasek]

Ok.  If this was initially installed using a currently-supported
release, it might be good to look back at the logs and at the code in
that version of the installer, to see if there's something we should fix
wrt the shim-signed package being marked as auto-installed instead of
manual.

(But a system installed here using 19.10 doesn't have shim-signed marked
as auto-installed, so I guess any bug in that regard may be rather old.)

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Title:
  shim can end up being removed

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in shim package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I just did a set of package updates in focal that ended up with shim
  shim-signed mokutil being autoremoved.

  I rebooted without noticing, and had to manually recover the system
  thereafter. :(

  Julian says there was a period of time where these were marked auto. I
  suppose that I installed during this window, and now some dependency
  change meant that as far as apt was concerned they weren't required
  any more.

  Can we please consider never proposing these packages for autoremoval?
  apt has NeverAutoRemove for this which could be used, or some other
  appropriate method.

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