Comment 4 for bug 873684

Hi
I read that matlab-support is only for matlab installations as the name suggests.
But is is there without any matlab version installed ever before.
I dont know which dependency it was, that installed it automatically.

If you upgrade Ubuntu, matlab-support asks always (in an infinite loop)
about the matlab location without any escape chance.
This can only be solved by a kill of these processes (several times repeated)
(during an upgrade a very inconvenient situation).
Later i could remove the package still being unaware why it is there.

So the bug is that in the logic of the upgrade i cannot escape without a valid matlab installation path.

The solution is to allow a override of the matlab-support configuration during upgrade
 or a deinstallation/skip of the package during upgrade
or that the dependency which installed it is cleared.
Best