Hi Brad,
On Tuesday 01 September 2015 08:51:17 Brad Alexander 00
No, no, no,no... apt would have uninstalled all those packages - until yesterday. Then the situation got way better (from a package-removal-upgrade perspective ;-) ), so I decided to give it a try.
akonadiconsole, for example, was *not* removed during the dist-upgrade. But I think this only worked, because I still have some packages installed from experimental...
BTW: running sid is already quite a risk during such transformations - but running it your wife's machine is more than brave ;-)