Ubuntu
language-support-translations-en package

language-support-en depends on thunderbird-locale-en-gb

Bug #64200 reported by Onkar Shinde on 2006-10-05

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #114503: language-support-* packages depend on Firefox, Thunderbird and Open Office Writer on Ubuntu and Kubuntu. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	language-support-translations-en (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: language-support-en

I am on Ubuntu edgy (latest).

The language-support-en package depends on thunderbird-locale-en-gb which eventually depends on thunderbird.

A user wanting support 'spell
checkers, dictionaries, OpenOffice and Mozilla locale packages' (as per description) will install this package.
This may cause forced installation of thunderbird even if user doesn't want.

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Olek Wojnar (olekw) wrote on 2006-10-20:

I can confirm this. I just tried removing the thunderbird-locale-en-gb package and it wouldn't let me do that without also removing the language-support-en package. Is this a bug or a feature?

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Paul Natsuo Kishimoto (khaeru) wrote on 2006-12-08:

Output of dpkg --status thunderbird-locale-en-gb Edit (544 bytes, text/plain)

Confirmed on edgy.

thunderbird-locale-en-gb appears to depend on either mozilla-thunderbird OR language-support-en, so it shouldn't force install of the former when the latter is installed. However, it *is* strange that this package is a dependency of language-support-en when Thunderbird isn't part of the basic Ubuntu system.

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Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde) wrote on 2006-12-08:

Marking confirmed as two more users have faced the problem.