Public bug reported:
During latest update of Ubuntu-20.04 focal the following conflict
appeared: either ubuntu-advantage-tools must be installed or ttf-
mscorefonts-installer must be removed. Such dependence should not be
hard, I do not mind (indirect) "recommends" relation.
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-advantage-tools and it was working smoothly till the
last update.
apt upgrade
attempted to install new package ubuntu-advantage-tools. I tried to set
`Pin-Priority: -1` to this package (I do not recommend such recipe, so
no config snippet here). The result is:
The following packages have been kept back:
python3-update-manager
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-mscorefonts-installer* update-manager-core* update-notifier-common*
Removing of ttf-mscorefonts-installer is against my goal. I would prefer
to keep the fonts.
1. ttf-mscorefonts-installer should not depend on update-notifier-
common. I noticed /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/
directory in /var/lib/dpkg/info/ttf-mscorefonts-installer.postinst If it
is the only reason of dependency, the package may create the directory
itself.
2. I hope, there is a way to avoid stale ubutu-advantage-tools without
hard dependency in update-manager-core (e.g. "recommends" and some
conflicts to earlier versions).
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-installer and ubuntu-advantage-tools.
** Affects: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: ubuntu-advantage-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: focal
** Also affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: ubuntu-advantage-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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