[mythtvnz] Recent OS upgrades

[OpenMedia Support]

> On Tue, 13 Sep 2022 21:11:02 +1200, you wrote:
>
>>> I thought that my recent experiences upgrading my Linuxmint desktop and
>>> my Ubuntu server might give others confidence to do it themselves.
>>>
>>
>>>
>>> *I upgraded Ubuntu Server from 20.04 to 22.04.1 LTS (with only a PHP
>>> problem) by*
>>>
>>> sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt
>>> autoremove
>>>
>>> sudo do-release-upgrade
>>>
>>
>>Interesting.  My upgrade is failing as it is trying to remove the package
>>mythbuntu-desktop. Anyone else seen this?
>>
>>2022-09-13 21:08:52,627 DEBUG metapkg 'mythbuntu-desktop' installed but
>>marked_delete
>>2022-09-13 21:08:52,628 DEBUG none of the '['ubuntu-desktop',
>>'kubuntu-desktop', 'xubuntu-core', 'xubuntu-desktop',
>>'ubuntustudio-desktop', 'mythbuntu-desktop', 'kubuntu-netbook',
>>'lubuntu-desktop', 'ubuntu-gnome-desktop', 'ubuntu-mate-core',
>>'ubuntu-mate-desktop', 'ubuntukylin-desktop', 'ubuntu-budgie-desktop']'
>>meta-pkgs installed
>>2022-09-13 21:08:52,632 DEBUG metapkg 'mythbuntu-desktop' installed but
>>marked_delete
>>2022-09-13 21:08:52,895 DEBUG denylist expr 'mythbuntu-desktop' matches
>>'mythbuntu-desktop'
>>2022-09-13 21:08:52,896 DEBUG The package 'mythbuntu-desktop' is marked
>>for removal but it's in the removal deny list
>>2022-09-13 21:08:52,908 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'The package
>>'mythbuntu-desktop' is marked for removal but it is in the removal deny
>>list.'
>
> The mythbuntu-desktop package does not exist in Ubuntu 20.04.  It is
> probably historical - I suspect that you need to install
> xubuntu-desktop so that mythbuntu-desktop can be deleted.  My main
> MythTV box and my mother's one look to have that same problem, but I
> have not tried upgrading them to 22.04 yet.  The machines I have
> upgraded to 22.04 so far (my big server/development PC and my laptop)
> both have gnome desktops installed.  The laptop also has xubuntu
> desktop installed - I switch it to that when I am using it for MythTV.

Looks like the lowest impact is xubuntu-core, otherwise I get a lot of
desktop apps I don't actually require.