gnome-language-selector removes 3 packages

[Nobuto Murata]

Binary package hint: language-selector

Expected result:
 1. launch gnome-language-selector
 2. add other language support (for example "German")
 3. click "Apply Changes" and install packages.
 4. complete install packages without any package removal.

Actual result:
 4. complete install packages but ubuntu-desktop, firefox-gnome-support, ubufox are removed.

manually installing packages below without gnome-language-selector does not remove any packages.
language-support-writing-de, language-pack-de-base, language-pack-gnome-de-base, gnome-user-guide-de, openoffice.org-help-de, language-pack-de, language-pack-gnome-de, openoffice.org-l10n-de

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 3 19:31:39 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100302)
Package: language-selector 0.4.18
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=ja_JP.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.20-generic
SourcePackage: language-selector
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic i686

[Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
Since you have reported this bug, I have committed several changes and fixes .

Could you please test with the latest release (0.5.1) or with the br branch linked above if this issue is still reproducable for you?

The fixes I have added should prevent packages from being removed when they are still needed.

However, as you mentioned the packages ubuntu-desktop, firefox-gnome-support and ubufox and *none* of them are handled by language-selector, my guess is that some other application or a system upgrade must have marked them as to be removed. Language-selector, when calling synaptic to remove obsolete translation packages, then just executed that task.

[Nobuto Murata (nobuto)]

> Could you please test with the latest release (0.5.1) or with the br branch linked above if this issue is still reproducable for you?

With 0.5.1, no package was removed.
I can confirm this bug is NOT reproducible now.

[Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)]

Thanks, marking as Fix Released then.