I followed the test case from the bug description and no longer received the message regarding livepatch being disabled. Additionally inspecting the downloaded dist-upgrader tarball we can see that the symlink is now good.
bdmurray@clean-cosmic-amd64:/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-jjhazydt$ file DistUpgrade
DistUpgrade: broken symbolic link to DistUpgrade
bdmurray@clean-cosmic-amd64:/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-jjhazydt$ cat DistUpgradeVersion.py
VERSION = '19.04.16.1'
bdmurray@clean-cosmic-amd64:/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-jjhazydt$ cd -
/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-27u554bb
bdmurray@clean-cosmic-amd64:/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-27u554bb$ file DistUpgrade
DistUpgrade: symbolic link to .
bdmurray@clean-cosmic-amd64:/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-27u554bb$ cat DistUpgradeVersion.py
VERSION = '19.04.16.2'
I followed the test case from the bug description and no longer received the message regarding livepatch being disabled. Additionally inspecting the downloaded dist-upgrader tarball we can see that the symlink is now good.
bdmurray@ clean-cosmic- amd64:/ tmp/ubuntu- release- upgrader- jjhazydt$ file DistUpgrade clean-cosmic- amd64:/ tmp/ubuntu- release- upgrader- jjhazydt$ cat DistUpgradeVers ion.py clean-cosmic- amd64:/ tmp/ubuntu- release- upgrader- jjhazydt$ cd - release- upgrader- 27u554bb clean-cosmic- amd64:/ tmp/ubuntu- release- upgrader- 27u554bb$ file DistUpgrade clean-cosmic- amd64:/ tmp/ubuntu- release- upgrader- 27u554bb$ cat DistUpgradeVers ion.py
DistUpgrade: broken symbolic link to DistUpgrade
bdmurray@
VERSION = '19.04.16.1'
bdmurray@
/tmp/ubuntu-
bdmurray@
DistUpgrade: symbolic link to .
bdmurray@
VERSION = '19.04.16.2'
Setting to verification-done.