Bug#449040: update-manager: smart-upgrade should advise on packages to be removed

[Alon Horn]

Package: update-manager
Severity: normal

smart-upgrade just removed allmost all apt frontends (synaptic, aptitude, update-manager)
on my system without giving a warning. a notice should be given maybe like in Ubuntu karmic's
update manager.

alon


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages update-manager depends on:
ii  gconf2                        2.26.2-2   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgnome2-perl                1.042-2    Perl interface to the GNOME librar
ii  python                        2.5.4-2    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-dbus                   0.83.0-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  python-glade2                 2.14.1-3   GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gnome2                 2.26.1-1   Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-support                1.0.3      automated rebuilding support for P
ii  python-vte                    1:0.20.5-1 Python bindings for the VTE widget
pn  software-properties-gtk       <none>     (no description available)
pn  synaptic                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  update-manager-core           <none>     (no description available)

update-manager recommends no packages.

Versions of packages update-manager suggests:
pn  update-notifier               <none>     (no description available)
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