Invalid or not: I'm not a KDE-person, installed the whole lot as it comes (I guess, metapackages), the complete Kubuntu. Over. Lancelot came with it, I didn't know about it earlier, I kind of discovered it then. It lasted through a number of upgrades, until, suddenly, it came across as 'no longer required'. Actually, until now I have always done 'autoremove' without thinking very much. At the next boot, suddenly instead of the red cup, I got an error-square. I compared with another install, and it is exactly the same package that is just reinstalled with sudo apt-get install plasma-widget-lancelot. I really fail to see the logic; it must have been kind of 'dropped': It was installed when I never knew that it existed (so it must have been a dependency of something in 4.3.2), while at some moment in time, later, it showed as superfluous. Even if the dependency was not there any longer, there is no good reason to show it as 'not required'. apt-get does *not* show all other packages as 'not required', that have no dependencies. It only shows, and should show, those that have been *replaced*, and are superfluous for that reason.
In any case, the casual user has another chance, unfortunately, to curse 'Linux', if your opinion is considered acceptable by anyone else: the user updates the software, and the update process tells her, that package XYZ is not needed any longer, and then the system breaks. It is your prerogative to call this 'normal', I don't. -- plasma-widget-lancelot with failed dependencies https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532031 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
