Comment 6 for bug 502748

I just tested and can verify that it's working correctly now. Thanks.

-Kendall Weaver

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Charlie Kravetz <email address hidden>wrote:

> I don't know exactly when this was fixed, but xubuntu no longer is
> pulling the OO.o stack when installing. I am marking it fix-released
> based on iso images tested for the beta1 release dated 2010-03-17 and
> 2010-03-18.
>
> ** Changed in: language-support-writing-en (Ubuntu)
> Status: Triaged => Fix Released
>
> --
> Dependency chain forces installation of OpenOffice
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502748
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> Status in “language-support-writing-en” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: language-support-writing-en
>
> Hi,
>
> I am running Xubuntu Karmic but I have checked the Lucid packages and found
> the same problem.
>
> The problem is with the language support package here :
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/language-support-writing-en It depends
> on packages like
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/openoffice.org-hyphenation and
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us which in
> turn pulls in the rest of OpenOffice.
>
> This results in OpenOffice being downloaded and installed by Ubiquity...
> The total size of downloads is ~130MB! This is very unfortunate for people
> with limited bandwidth.
>
> This problem existed in 8.04 LTS, and I reported the bug (read pestered the
> poor devs on launchpad, IRC and forums :) ) and a fix was released for
> 8.04.1. It is really unfortunate to see this regression rear it's ugly head
> again.
>
> Please fix this problem, as it is usually people with meagre resources that
> have to use Xubuntu on their older machines and more often than not, they do
> not have unlimited megabit connections.
>
> Thank you for your work.
>
>
>
> [edit] I have found the old bug submission for 8.04 LTS
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/220817
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