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Do Not Try to Upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS at This Time

• ezoe 2y ago
  According to the article, these are the issues. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/2061918 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/2... https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/2063221 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/20632... It looks like snap related. I wonder when Canonical give up on snap. Is this a NIH syndrome? They reinvented the wheel(package manager) and failed miserably. Debian has dpkg/apt and the upgrade process has long history of smoothly done. Now they add another half-baked package manager that need to be tended carefully. Extra software is extra burden of maintenance.
  • tssva 2y ago
    Based upon the bug reports you sited it actually seems to be apt related.
    • ezoe 2y ago
      Is it really an apt bug? It looks like they move some packages from apt to snap, and misconfigured dependency. That's beyond the design assumption of apt. Also, what ultimately failed is snapd.
      • tssva 2y ago
        “apt can struggle with ordering when handling the massive Y2028 time_t transition when upgrading to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. It was identified that dropping the libglib2.0-0 transitional package can help apt do things in the correct order.” Sounds like an apt ordering issue which has been worked around by dropping a package which was causing it to incorrectly order. The failure of snapd was a symptom caused by the error in apt.