Also ran into this issue when attempting to upgrade from 19.10 to 20.04. After removing postgresql-10-postgis-2.4, I ran do-release-upgrade again and got this message: Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.
I ran apt upgrade. It's now installing a lot of focal packages: ...snip... 832 upgraded, 116 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded. Need to get 701 MB of archives. After this operation, 1,176 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y ...snip... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/996916 Title: postgresql packages in the removal blacklist making it hard to upgrade To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/996916/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs