Gwibber removal removes ubuntu-desktop

[actionparsnip]

andy@D420:~$ sudo apt-get --purge remove gwibber
[sudo] password for andy:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
  gwibber* ubuntu-desktop*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1,000 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gwibber 3.3.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-12.21-generic-pae 3.2.2
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-12-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 4 18:24:56 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120203)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gwibber
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Matt Parlette (matthew-parlette)]

Also see but 691175, which is similar, but has to do with indicator-me

[Paul (i41bktob-launchpad-net)]

As of 2012-02-22, ubuntu-desktop does not depend on gwibber, and this issue is resolved:

# apt-get purge gwibber* libgwibber*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
[...]
The following packages will be REMOVED
  gwibber* gwibber-service* gwibber-service-facebook* gwibber-service-identica*
  gwibber-service-twitter* libgwibber-gtk2* libgwibber1* libgwibber2*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1,868 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 231918 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gwibber ...