I think that this is a very strange bug and that it should have higher
priority than "medium".
On my karmic beta, every time I install a language via language-
selector, ubuntu-desktop is removed. This is only visible if one clicks
on the "details" button. While ubuntu-desktop is not important by
itself, it is nevertheless one of the most important packages in the
upgrading process between different ubuntu versions.
For testing purposes, I installed Afrikaans. Then, synaptic is run like
this:
/usr/sbin/synaptic --hide-main-window --non-interactive --parent-window-
id ..... --finish-str "The list of available languages on the system has
been updated." --set-selections-file /tmp/tmp...
Where the tmp file looks like this (second install, see below):
language-support-writing-af install
ubuntu-desktop deinstall
I do not see any reason why ubuntu-desktop should be mentioned at all.
Unfortunately I do not find the reason from reading the LanguagSelector
code either.
Another problem is that when the language is de-installed, not all
packages are removed again. This is the output of dpkg -l "*-af" | grep
^.[ih] after removing the Afrikaans support in language-selector.
ii myspell-af 1:3.0.1-8ubuntu1
Afrikaans dictionary for myspell
ii openoffice.org-hyphenation-af 1:3.0.1-8ubuntu1
Afrikaans hyphenation patterns for OpenOffic
Maybe there should be some dependency handling?
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language-selector should not uninstall packages without a warning (allow
opt-out)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/37707
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