[Bug 2073278] Re: Dist-upgrade failed: 'The package 'postgresql-12' is marked for removal but it is in the removal deny list.'

[Nick Rosbrook]

I was able to reproduce this by creating a focal container, installing
postgresql, and then upgrading to jammy, followed by an upgrade to
attempt to noble. E.g.,

$ lxc launch ubuntu:focal focal
$ lxc exec focal bash

root at focal:~# apt install postgresql
root at focal:~# do-release-upgrade -f DistUpgradeViewNonInteractive # Upgrade to jammy
root at focal:~# do-release-upgrade --devel

** Summary changed:

- I cant update to the newest version of ubuntu 24,04 LTS 
+ Dist-upgrade failed: 'The package 'postgresql-12' is marked for removal but it is in the removal deny list.'

** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Dist-upgrade failed: 'The package 'postgresql-12' is marked for
  removal but it is in the removal deny list.'

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

Bug description:
  When running sudo do-release-upgrade -d
  I get follwing massage 

  
  Checking package manager
  Reading package lists... Done    
  Building dependency tree... Done 
  Reading state information... Done

  Calculating the changes

  Calculating the changes

  Could not calculate the upgrade

  An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

  This was likely caused by: 
  * Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu 
  Please use the tool 'ppa-purge' from the ppa-purge 
  package to remove software from a Launchpad PPA and 
  try the upgrade again. 

  If none of this applies, then please report this bug using the 
  command 'ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core' in a terminal. If 
  you want to investigate this yourself the log files in 
  '/var/log/dist-upgrade' will contain details about the upgrade. 
  Specifically, look at 'main.log' and 'apt.log'. 

  
  Restoring original system state

  Aborting
  Reading package lists... Done    
  Building dependency tree... Done 

  I think already tried removed the third party packages and it is still
  not working

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:22.04.19
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-116.126-generic 5.15.158
  Uname: Linux 5.15.0-116-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Tue Jul 16 18:10:23 2024
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-02-28 (1233 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20200203.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2024-07-16 (0 days ago)

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