[Touch-packages] [Bug 1882157] [NEW] Can't report bug on package you have replaced

Public bug reported: Ubuntu-bug will not let you report a bug if you have upgraded a package using external sources. Package zoom was so old the server rejected it. Downloaded the new .deb file from upstream source. Now I can't report a bug on zoom that the package is so far out of date. Simi

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1863988] [NEW] 49 unnecessary warnings about "configured multiple times"

Public bug reported: Two duplicate entries in apt sources, that exist due to no fault of my own, generated 49 entirely unnecessary warnings every single time I ran apt-update or added a ppa today. apt-get update W: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /et

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1828220] Re: apt-get --install-suggests applied recursively

I would also point out not only is the recursive interpretation of --install-suggests incorrect, it is internally inconsistent. apt-get --dry-run remove --purge -o APT::AutoRemove::Suggests- Important=0 --auto-remove geda geda-utils geda-examples kicad kicad-doc- en librecad oregano qelectrotech x

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1828220] Re: apt-get --install-suggests applied recursively

The claim that it does what it says it does is false. What it, in fact does, is consider suggested packages of OTHER packages as a dependency for installing. This recursive behavior is not advertised and not acceptable. For that behavior, one should have to use an option such as --install-sugg

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1828220] [NEW] apt-get --install-suggests applied recursively

Public bug reported: In a blatent violation of the principal of least surprise, --install- suggests installs packages that are in the suggested packages for packages that are not listed on the command line. It installs suggested packages for other packages deep in the dependency hierarchy. Do no

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1769299] Re: universal access zoom unusable

Problem reproduced on separate (virtual) machine, unmodified ubuntu live image. - Host system AMD Phenom II X6 1090T with 16GB RAM Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS - virtualbox 14.3.36-dfsg-... - SATA 0: 8GB VMDK drive (new) - SATA 1: CD/ROM: ubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso - Base memor

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1656667] [NEW] unattended-upgrade running without permission on thumbdrive

Public bug reported: I was using a thumbdrive freshly created with unetbootin with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and a 2GB persistent partition on a VAIO VPCEB42FM laptop to copy failed hard drive to replacement hard drive. During this critical recovery operation, system was unresponsive and I discovered tha