residual config in myspell-en-us after fresh install

So... purge the package. That is the way package manager for debs work, unless you tell it to completely remove (purge) a package it leaves the configuration files, it is a feature.

Chris

I never installed or uninstalled that package.

A brand new installation of Ubuntu 9.04 comes with those leftover files.

I assume that after the installation was over Ubuntu installer uninstalled some of the packages, instead of purging them.

I can confirm this bug. It's not really that big of a deal, but OCD people like me find it annoying. Why is it there in the first place? This always happens on a clean install. Did it get installed, then uninstalled during Ubuntu's installation? Perplexing...

Could you attach /var/log/installer/syslog to this bug, please?

Ubiquity does remove some packages after copying the live filesystem, but (a) myspell-en-us shouldn't be one of them since English language support is always installed, and (b) Ubiquity purges packages anyway. So this is kind of weird and I'd like to get to the bottom of it.

The live system already has myspell-en package removed.

If you boot into the LiveCD and then start synaptic you can see that myspell-en is already removed, but not purged.

OK, thanks for the information, and I now see the problem. This is an interesting bug.

myspell-en-us is installed as part of desktop, presumably due to a dependency from (lots of stuff) -> hunspell -> myspell-en-us | myspell-dictionary | hunspell-dictionary. Furthermore, language-support-writing-en Depends: hunspell-en-us which Replaces: and Conflicts: myspell-en-us. Thus, myspell-en-us gets installed in one phase of building the live filesystem, and hunspell-en-us then gets installed in a later phase and causes myspell-en-us to be removed.

Thus I think there's a two-part bug here. One is that livecd-rootfs doesn't cope with this by using the (admittedly odd-looking) 'apt-get --purge install' construction to arrange that any packages removed as a result of Conflicts are purged. The other is that ubuntu-desktop installs one package and then language-support-en installs a conflicting one (although it does still satisfy one of the alternatives of the relevant dependency); that's just twisted and we should fix it.

This bug was fixed in the package livecd-rootfs - 0.79

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livecd-rootfs (0.79) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Use the --purge option to 'apt-get install', to ensure that any packages
    removed as a result of Conflicts are purged (LP: #327821).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:06:18 +0100

thunderbird also tries to pull in myspell-en-us, which will also be going away for karmic, instead of hunspell-en-us as it should.

This bug was fixed in the package hunspell - 1.2.6-1ubuntu2

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hunspell (1.2.6-1ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Correct dictionary dependencies to be on hunspell-en-us. (LP: #327821)

 -- Chris Cheney <email address hidden> Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:00:00 -0500

this bug was fixed in Ubuntu 13.04