On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:34:38PM +0530, Ajay Shah wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:17:42AM +0100, Chris Halls wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 17:11, Ajay Shah wrote: > > > using unstable. I think the defaults should be english.
> I'm not a Debian developer; I'm just a user. So I'll defer to your > judgment about how this should be handled. Being a DD doesn't make me an expert in everything, I'm afraid :) > But I *do* think this is a bug. I'm just a vanilla Debian user. I say > > # apt-get install openoffice.org Well, vanilla Debian users aren't expected to use apt-get. I think you should read this message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200307/msg02135.html It's dealing with another problem with apt-get, one of obsolete packages, but the rest of the mail is relevant. BTW, I actually tried this out on my pure unstable chroot, and I do not get the same as youi, with apt or aptitude: # dpkg -l openoffice.org\* No packages found matching openoffice.org*. # apt-get install openoffice.org Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: dictionaries-common openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-debian-files openoffice.org-l10n-en Suggested packages: ispell jed-extra openoffice.org-help ooqstart-gnome oooqs-kde cupsys-bsd ttf-bitstream-vera openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-hyphenation openoffice.org-hyphenation-en openoffice.org-help-en Recommended packages: x-ttcidfont-conf The following NEW packages will be installed: dictionaries-common openoffice.org openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-debian-files openoffice.org-l10n-en 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. Need to get 60.1MB of archives. After unpacking 185MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] # aptitude install openoffice.org Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information... Done The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: dictionaries-common openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-debian-files openoffice.org-l10n-en openoffice.org-mimelnk x-ttcidfont-conf The following packages have been kept back: fontconfig libc6 libc6-dev libfontconfig1-dev libgnutls7 libxft2 locales The following NEW packages will be installed: dictionaries-common openoffice.org openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-debian-files openoffice.org-l10n-en openoffice.org-mimelnk x-ttcidfont-conf 0 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. Need to get 60.2MB of archives. After unpacking 186MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Note that in both cases, I would end up with openoffice.org-l10n-en. Chris
