[Bug 37707] Re: language-selector should not uninstall packages without a warning (allow opt-out)

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

This bug report is a very old one, and I'm going to assume that the
older reported issues are solved.

In the linked merge proposal I have made an adjustment aiming to fix the
issue with unrelated packages being removed when a language is removed,
as reported in comment #12. It's not a perfect fix, since it means that
some packages that could well be removed will be kept. OTOH, those
redundant packages will probably not hurt.

A language-selector build for Raring, including the proposed fix, is available in my PPA at https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/misc
It would be great if you could install and test it to evaluate if there are any undesired side effects caused by the fix.

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => In Progress

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)

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Title:
  language-selector should not uninstall packages without a warning
  (allow opt-out)

Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  After upgrading a recently-installed xubuntu-desktop from breezy to
  dapper, I ran gnome-language-selector for the first time.

  I selected Norwegian bokmål as my supported (and default) language,
  and pressed apply.   As I watched the debug log, I discovered that
  language-selector removed the xubuntu-desktop, firefox and mozilla-
  mplayer packages _without warning_.

  My language-selector package is version 0.1.15

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