Package gloobus-sushi will remove ubuntu-gnome-desktop as well

[adit]

I'm using ubuntu gnome 14.10 and gnome shell 3.14.3, the first time I tried to install gloobus-sushi after gloobus-preview package will also remove ubuntu-gnome-desktop package. Check attachment for screenshot.

[Balló György (ballogy)]

I think you're probably using the WebUpd8 PPA, so I'm assigning this bug to Andrew.

[Alin Andrei (nilarimogard)]

Hmmm gloobus-sushi doesn't work if gnome-sushi is installed so the gloobus-sushi package has this:
Conflicts: gnome-sushi
Replaces: gnome-sushi

Which removes gnome-sushi when gloobus-sushi is installed. Unfortunately that's the way it works... I assume "ubuntu-gnome-desktop" is a meta package (which depends on gnome-sushi) so it shouldn't be a problem removing it though of course, that's not ideal, but I don't know how else this could be solved.

Also, where does the "ubuntu-gnome-desktop" package comes from? It's not in the official Ubuntu repositories and I can't find it in the GNOME 3 PPAs either. What's the output of "apt-cache policy ubuntu-gnome-desktop"?

[adit (aditiapratama)]

Hi Andrei,

Here's the output of apt-cache

ubuntu-gnome-desktop:
  Installed: 0.34
  Candidate: 0.34
  Version table:
 *** 0.34 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Alin Andrei (nilarimogard)]

Ah, yes, it is from the Ubuntu repos. Sorry, my bad.

I checked the package and indeed, it depends (doesn't just simply recommends) gnome-sushi. Which is weird, for instance, the ubuntu-desktop meta-package doesn't enforce depends and you can remove non-important apps installed by default without removing the meta package.

Unfortunately, this means that you can't install gloobus-preview without removing gnome-sushi and thus, ubuntu-gnome-desktop. This can only be fixed by the Ubuntu GNOME devs, by moving gnome-sushi from "depends" to "recommends".

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-gnome-meta - 0.87

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ubuntu-gnome-meta (0.87) focal; urgency=medium

  * Refreshed dependencies
  * Make most GNOME apps recommends so they can be removed by users who prefer
    to use Snap/FlatPak versions (LP: #1764596 LP: #1285543 LP: #1408214)
  * Moved baobab to desktop-recommends
  * Moved eog to desktop-recommends
  * Moved evince to desktop-recommends
  * Moved file-roller to desktop-recommends
  * Moved gedit to desktop-recommends
  * Moved gnome-calculator to desktop-recommends
  * Moved gnome-calendar to desktop-recommends
  * Moved gnome-characters to desktop-recommends
  * Moved gnome-contacts to desktop-recommends
  * Moved gnome-disk-utility to desktop-recommends
  * Moved gnome-documents to desktop-recommends
  * Moved gnome-font-viewer to desktop-recommends
  * Moved gnome-initial-setup to desktop-recommends
  * Moved gnome-logs to desktop-recommends
  * Moved gnome-screenshot to desktop-recommends
  * Moved gnome-sushi to desktop-recommends
  * Moved gnome-system-monitor to desktop-recommends
  * Moved gnome-terminal to desktop-recommends
  * Moved gnome-todo to desktop-recommends
  * Moved nautilus to desktop-recommends
  * Moved nautilus-extension-brasero to desktop-recommends
  * Moved simple-scan to desktop-recommends

 -- Tim Lunn <email address hidden> Sat, 11 Apr 2020 11:06:42 +1000