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Language support packages are marked as automatically installed

Bug #62712 reported by Matt Zimmerman
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu
Invalid
Medium
Unassigned
Ubuntu ubuntu-6.10
pkgsel (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Colin Watson
Ubuntu ubuntu-6.10

Bug Description

On a fresh Ubiquity install:

mdz@mdz-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  wamerican language-pack-en-base language-pack-gnome-en-base
  thunderbird-locale-en-gb openoffice.org-l10n-common language-support-en
  openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb
  openoffice.org-l10n-en-za wbritish language-pack-en
  mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb openoffice.org-help-en-us
  language-pack-gnome-en
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

This happens because language-support-en is apparently only pulled in as a dependency of ubuntu-live, rather than as a task as it should be.

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

Apparently there isn't a task for -live at the moment, so we're going to work around this for beta and fix it properly after.

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

Michael: I noticed while debugging this that "apt-get install <package>" on an installed package doesn't clear the auto-installed flag. It feels like it should.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

One of the patches I sent to bug 62696 (private due to presence of Launchpad patches, I'm afraid) tweaks cron.germinate to add *-live tasks.

Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in debian-installer:
assignee: nobody → kamion
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

We now have the *-live tasks, and I'm told that livefs.sh started using them today, so this should be fixed with the next build; I'll check and close this bug if so. We do need to remove the *-live metapackages too, otherwise we don't get some of the late-seed-change flexibility of tasks.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Closing 'Ubuntu' task, d-i task remains open.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

pkgsel (0.07ubuntu3) edgy; urgency=low

  * Now that we're installing usplash and its theme from pkgsel rather than
    base-installer, it's worthwhile to divert update-initramfs and call it
    just once at the end.
  * Use apt-get rather than aptitude to install language packs (closes:
    Malone #62712).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:45:44 +0100

Changed in pkgsel:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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