[Bug 2084268] Re: Upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 gives error: The package "'ubuntu-minimal' is marked for removal but it is in the removal deny list."

[chris.rapson]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1980574 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1980574

I'm seeing the same message, and I don't have the pipewire PPA added. I
don't believe I've ever heard of pipewire before.

I have already `ppa-purge`d deadsnakes. It's possible I have other PPAs, but I haven't found a good way of listing them. Here's what I've tried so far.
 * The "Software & Updates" GUI has a long list (including esm.ubuntu.com and "important security updates"), but everything in the list is unselected. 
 * `grep -r --include '*.list' '^deb ' /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/` only shows entries from official repositories
 * `apt-cache policy | grep http | awk '{print $2" "$3}' | sort -u` has the official repositories as well as `http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb` and `https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt`. I remember installing them, but can't figure out what argument I should provide to `ppa-purge` to remove them.
 * `add-apt-repository --list` gives no output at all

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Title:
  Upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 gives error: The package "'ubuntu-minimal' is
  marked for removal but it is in the removal deny list."

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

Bug description:
  Full error message:

  Could not calculate the upgrade

  An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

   The package 'ubuntu-minimal' is marked for removal but it is in the
  removal deny list.

  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'.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:23.10.14
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-44.44-generic 6.5.13
  Uname: Linux 6.5.0-44-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Fri Oct 11 17:26:54 2024
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-03-10 (946 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20220223)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to mantic on 2024-10-11 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeAptHistorylog:
   Start-Date: 2024-10-11  17:18:43
   Requested-By: daniel (1000)
   End-Date: 2024-10-11  17:18:44
  VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog:
   Log started: 2024-10-11  17:18:43
   Log ended: 2024-10-11  17:18:44
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:
   
  mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: 2023-08-30T12:29:14.275646

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