update-manager should recommend not depend on ubuntu-advantage-tools
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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msttcorefonts (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
ubuntu-advantage-tools (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
During latest update of Ubuntu-20.04 focal the following conflict appeared: either ubuntu-
Since I have no intention to subscribe to ESM or to kernel live patch (sorry, I am not a source of profit for Canonical, at least direct one), I removed ubuntu-
apt upgrade
attempted to install new package ubuntu-
The following packages have been kept back:
python3-
I do not expect upgrade till next year, so I tried to remove packages necessary for dist-upgrade
apt purge update-manager-core
The following packages will be REMOVED:
ttf-
Removing of ttf-mscorefonts
1. ttf-mscorefonts
2. I hope, there is a way to avoid stale ubutu-advantage
I do not know the full story, I found lp:1926361, but fixes released several months ago. I have no idea why the problem appeared on my machine this week.
It seems, there 2 independent issues that are quite harmless while isolated but their combination causes a problem. Please, disentangle ttf-mscorefonts
summary: |
- ttf-mscorefonts-installer should not depend on ubuntu-advantage-tools + update-manager should recommend not depend on ubuntu-advantage-tools |
WRT mscorefonts depending on update- notifier- common, this is necessary, update- notifier- common has centralized downloading of addons like htis.