language support removes openoffice and breaks packages

[sampula]

Binary package hint: language-selector

Installed lucid alpha 2 from usb-creator-created stick. Clock applet had time in 12 hour format. Changed to 24-hour. Noticed that can't localize time format from clock preferences. Went to System->Administration->Language Support. Weird things started to happen.

It said something of "language support not installed". Chose to install. Then added Finnish to available of languages. After or before adding Finnish, the installation took many minutes and meddled with openoffice.org-core and such. It had removed OpenOffice completely, except /usr/bin/openoffice.org. Also had one broken package in the process, fixed that with synaptic.

After further entering Language Support, I now have OO Writer, which is broken so that toolbar icons appear as text. Now whenever I enter Language Support, it says "The language support is not installed completely". The packages to be installed cycles between openoffice.org-voikko and {openoffice.org-help-en-gb, openoffice.org-help-en-us, openoffice.org-help-fi}. The first removes Writer, and the latter(s) restores Writer.

Also, entering Software Center says "sorry, ... closed unexpectedly" (but it stays open) and clicking "report problem" generates a "problem in software-center" dialog with a huge list of obsolete packages:

"The problem cannot be reported:

You have some obsolete package versions installed. Please upgrade the following packages and check if the problem still occurs:

software-center, adduser, consolekit, cpp-4.4, dbus, debconf, debconf-i18n, dpkg, fontconfig, gcc-4.4-base, gconf2-common, gnome-menus, initscripts, libacl1, libaspell15, libblkid1, libbz2-1.0, libck-connector0, libcomerr2, libcups2, libdatrie1, libdb4.7, libdbus-1-3, libdirectfb-1.2-0, libexpat1, libffi5, libgcc1, libgconf2-4, libgmp3c2, libgnome-menu2, libgsf-1-114, libgsf-1-common, libgssapi-krb5-2, libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0, libgstreamer0.10-0, libgtk2.0-bin, libgtk2.0-common, libhunspell-1.2-0, libk5crypto3, libkrb5-3, libkrb5support0, libldap-2.4-2, libpam-modules, libpam0g, libpixman-1-0, libplymouth2, libpng12-0, libpolkit-agent-1-0, libpolkit-backend-1-0, libpolkit-gobject-1-0, libreadline6, libsoup2.4-1, libssl0.9.8, libstdc++6, libtasn1-3, libthai-data, libthai0, libtiff4, libuuid1, libvte-common, libvte9, libwebkit-1.0-2, libwebkit-1.0-common, libx11-6, libx11-data, libxcb-render0, libxcb1, libxext6, libxi6, libxinerama1, libxslt1.1, mime-support, mount, mountall, passwd, policykit-1, policykit-1-gnome, python-apt, python-cairo, python-central, python-dbus, python-gmenu, python-gobject, python-gtk2, python-sexy, python-vte, readline-common, shared-mime-info, sysv-rc, sysvinit-utils, tzdata, x11-common"

Haven't tried to fix all this. Will try to attach synaptic log with the report.

Snowy ocean greetings,
Samuli

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Feb 22 13:15:33 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113)
Package: language-selector 0.4.18
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-10.14-generic
SourcePackage: language-selector
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-10-generic i686

[sampula (samuli-kaipiainen)]

How can I target this for Lucid, as that's where this belongs? ubuntu-bug didn't do that for me.

This is certainly just an alpha issue, and I wonder if it's non-reproducible as I couldn't find it reported before.

[sampula (samuli-kaipiainen)]

Looking at the apt log, it seems that...

1) First entering language support just upgraded OpenOffice and other packages,
2) Adding Finnish to available languages removed OpenOffice. Here's that log entry:

Start-Date: 2010-02-20 15:43:43
Install: libmalaga7 (7.12-3), language-pack-fi-base (10.04+20100206.1), language-support-writing-fi (9.10+20090909), tmispell-voikko (0.7.1-1), voikko-fi (1.5-1), language-pack-gnome-fi-base (10.04+20100206.1), gnome-user-guide-fi (2.28.0+git20090921ubuntu2), openoffice.org-voikko (3.1-2build1), libenchant-voikko (1.5.0-0ubuntu3), mozvoikko (1.0-1ubuntu3), libvoikko1 (2.2.2-1), language-pack-fi (10.04+20100213.2), language-pack-gnome-fi (10.04+20100213), openoffice.org-l10n-fi (3.2.0~rc4-1ubuntu1)
Remove: openoffice.org-gnome (3.2.0~rc4-1ubuntu1), openoffice.org-core (3.2.0~rc4-1ubuntu1), openoffice.org-writer (3.2.0~rc4-1ubuntu1), openoffice.org-impress (3.2.0~rc4-1ubuntu1), openoffice.org-draw (3.2.0~rc4-1ubuntu1), openoffice.org-gtk (3.2.0~rc4-1ubuntu1), openoffice.org-math (3.2.0~rc4-1ubuntu1), python-uno (3.2.0~rc4-1ubuntu1), openoffice.org-base-core (3.2.0~rc4-1ubuntu1), openoffice.org-emailmerge (3.1.1-5ubuntu3), openoffice.org-help-en-gb (3.2.0~rc4-1ubuntu1), openoffice.org-calc (3.2.0~rc4-1ubuntu1), openoffice.org-help-en-us (3.1.1-4ubuntu1)
End-Date: 2010-02-20 15:44:49

Also found an old "marked for later" bug, a duplicate maybe: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/37707

[Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)]

Should be fixed with the latest version (0.5.1) or the version in the branch linked above.

[sampula (samuli-kaipiainen)]

Good to know, thanks!