[Bug 1978310] Re: jammy, noble: Installing fuse package removes other important packages

[Daniel van Vugt]

Please remember to update bug 1717878 too.

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Title:
  jammy,noble: Installing fuse package removes other important packages

Status in fuse package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in fuse3 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in fuse source package in Jammy:
  Won't Fix
Status in fuse3 source package in Jammy:
  Triaged
Status in fuse source package in Noble:
  Won't Fix
Status in fuse3 source package in Noble:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Impact
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  Test Case
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  What Could Go Wrong
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  Other Info
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  This is being fixed by adding a transitional package fuse built by the fuse3 source package. We are doing it in the fuse3 source package because we need to also remove the Conflicts and change the Breaks to a versioned Breaks so since we need to update fuse3 anyway, there doesn't seem to be much benefit to also uploading the fuse source package.

  On the other hand, Launchpad will not allow the fuse source package to
  be updated if it still builds the out-of-date fuse binary package.
  Therefore, I think I'll just upload fuse removing the fuse binary
  package but we could set it as blocked in proposed. That way, it is
  more convenient in case someone needs to do a Security update or SRU
  later. I'll use a separate LP bug to set the block-proposed tag just
  for source package fuse.

  This still seems like it would be smoother than requiring 2 source
  packages to be uploaded to fix the SRU and having to deal with phasing
  etc.

  Original Bug Report
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  I installed the `fuse` package in my fresh Ubuntu 22.04 installation and later started getting weird behavior in some applications (such as Chrome). I believe this might be related, as installing `fuse` caused many packages to be removed.

  This was reported by others here:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-
  browser/+bug/1970148

  apt log shows this:
  `
  Start-Date: 2022-06-04  10:31:38
  Commandline: apt install fuse
  Requested-By: thomas (1000)
  Install: libfuse2:amd64 (2.9.9-5ubuntu3, automatic), fuse:amd64 (2.9.9-5ubuntu3)
  Remove: ntfs-3g:amd64 (1:2021.8.22-3ubuntu1), xdg-desktop-portal-gtk:amd64 (1.14.0-1build1), xdg-desktop-portal-gnome:amd64 (42.1-0ubuntu1), gvfs-fuse:amd64 (1.48.1-4), ubuntu-desktop:amd64 (1.481), gnome-shell-
  extension-desktop-icons-ng:amd64 (43-2), fuse3:amd64 (3.10.5-1build1), ubuntu-desktop-minimal:amd64 (1.481), xdg-desktop-portal:amd64 (1.14.3-0ubuntu2.22.04.1)
  End-Date: 2022-06-04  10:31:57
  `

  So, installing `fuse` removes packages such as `ubuntu-desktop` and
  `xdg-desktop-portal`, which (I believe) are important packages and
  should not be removed.

  System information:
  Ubuntu 22.04 running on amd64 hardware

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