do-release-upgrade removed system-config-printer-gnome during 16.04 -> 16.10 upgrade

I've tried a variety of things including installing packagekit-tools, enabling the python3 PPA you use and installing python3.3-dev and then python3.4-dev. I also installed ubuntu-gnome-desktop and removed ubuntu-desktop. None of these resulted in the suggested removal of system-config-printer-gnome.

I also had ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 and ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging enabled on 16.04, but I removed them both with ppa-purge before doing the upgrade. I wonder if that could've had any effect on this.

I was able to recreate this by taking a stock Ubuntu Gnome 16.04.1 install and starting the upgrade to 16.10, viewing the details of the upgrade I see that system-config-printer-gnome will be removed.

Brian, should we have ubuntu-gnome-desktop add a Depends on s-c-p-gnome as a yakkety SRU?

DistUpgrade.cfg can also contain a KeepInstalledPkgs section which I tested and works e.g.

[ubuntu-gnome-desktop]
KeyDependencies=ubuntu-gnome-default-settings, ubuntu-gnome-wallpapers
KeepInstalledPkgs=system-config-printer-gnome

While it'd be good to fix ubuntu-gnome-desktop to again depend on s-c-p-gnome I think using KeepInstalledPkgs might be easier.

Brian,

I want all users of gnome-control-center in Ubuntu 16.10 (including those who upgraded before November) to have system-config-printer-gnome installed so that the Printers panel worked so I'll add the dependency there.

For 17.04, Ubuntu GNOME plans to follow Debian's lead and move scp-dbus-service.py to system-config-printer-common so that we will no longer need system-config-printer-gnome installed.

IRC discussions settled that this ubuntu-release-upgrader change is not needed in the light of the changes needed in comment #7 to fix those already affected.

Note that releasing this into -updates requires fixing this in zesty first. This doesn't block acceptance into -proposed, but please keep it in mind.

Hello Marius, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-control-center into yakkety-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/1:3.20.2-0ubuntu2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:3.22.1-1ubuntu2

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gnome-control-center (1:3.22.1-1ubuntu2) zesty; urgency=medium

  * debian/control.in:
    - Depend on system-config-printer-common instead of recommending
      system-config-printer-gnome (LP: #1637466) (LP: #1643129)
    - Depend on instead of recommend network-manager-gnome (Closes: #845021)

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Thu, 24 Nov 2016 18:16:34 -0500

I did not test the upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04.

I did install gnome-control-center 1:3.20.2-0ubuntu2 from yakkety-proposed on Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 and confirmed that it now depends on system-config-printer-gnome.

zesty is also fixed now but in a different way (see the changelog in the previous comment) because system-config-printer was merged from Debian.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:3.20.2-0ubuntu2

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gnome-control-center (1:3.20.2-0ubuntu2) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * debian/control.in:
    - Depend on (instead of recommend) system-config-printer-gnome to
      ensure the Printers panel works. The dependency was uninstalled
      for some people upgrading from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (LP: #1637466)

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Mon, 07 Nov 2016 09:53:01 -0500

The verification of the Stable Release Update for gnome-control-center has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.