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Bug#928555: upgrade to buster from stretch suggests to remove bridge-utils

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Please see correction, I ran `apt autoremove` and then restarted.

bridge-utils was not automatically removed during the installation, it was
after running `apt autoremove`


On Mon, 6 May 2019 23:54:05 -0400 Brenden Eng <fibersnet@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: upgrade-reports
>
> Version: buster
>
> My system has a bridge interface configured in /etc/network/interfaces.
> I upgraded from stretch to buster.  After the successful upgrade in
> the list of packages to be auto-removed is bridge-utils.
>
> "The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
>   bridge-utils..."
>
> After running `sudo apt autoremove` and a subsequent restart,
> the host was missing its bridge interfaces.
>
> Manual installation of bridge-utils fixed the network interfaces.
>
> I suppose bridge-utils did not have any dependencies which was why it
> was auto-removed but this is an important package since loss of
> connectivity can occur if upgrading remotely.
>
> Thank you,
>
> -Brenden

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Bug#928555: upgrade to buster from stretch suggests to remove bridge-utils Brenden Eng <fibersnet@gmail.com> - 2019-05-07 06:00 +0200
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