Hi Nick, On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 1:05 PM Nick Rosbrook <nick.rosbr...@canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > > I guess something in do-release-upgrade could be run to, when > encountering such a situation, automatically select > bin:samba-vfs-modules-extra for the upgrade as well? Is it worth it? Is > there a precedence for something like this? And how would this be done in a > more generic/general case, if at all? > > We have the concept of "quirks"[1] in ubuntu-release-upgrader which > allows us to handle special cases like this. For example, a cycle or > two ago when flatpak was removed from flavor seeds, we added some code > to not auto-remove flatpak if it appeared the user was actively using > it. So yes, if nothing else we could add a quirk to make sure > samba-vfs-modules-extra is installed upgrades if samba-vfs-modules is > currently installed. > > That sounds exactly what I need, thank a log for the pointer! Is there an easy way to use "do-release-upgrade -d" to test my changes before proposing them, or will it always download the tarball at http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/dist-upgrader-all/current/noble.tar.gz and use that? > Thanks, > Nick > > [1] > https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-upgrader/tree/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeQuirks.py >
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