postint appears to be checking for packages that no longer exist

[David Partain]

Greetings,

Please see this thread for full information about how I got here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2029774

If I install using the latest mini.iso file (http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-updates/main/installer-amd64/20101020ubuntu136.1/images/netboot/mini.iso) I get a popup when I first log in (and all users get the same popup) stating that there is incomplete language support. The installation is a simple ubuntu desktop installation. The popup has the following text:

<popup>
Incomplete Language Support

The language support files for your selected language seem to be incomplete. You can install the missing components by clicking on "Run this action now" and follow the instructions. An active internet connection is required. If you would like to do this at a later time, please use Language Support instead (click the icon at the very right of the top bar and select "System Settings... -> Language Support").
</popup>

If you then look in the log file from the installation (/var/log/installer/syslog), you will see:

in-target: Setting up language-pack-gnome-en-base (1:12.04+20120508) ...
in-target: Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
in-target: Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
in-target: Reading package lists...
in-target: Building dependency tree...
in-target: Reading state information...
in-target: E
in-target: :
in-target: Unable to locate package language-support-en
pkgsel: finishing up
pkgsel: dpkg-query -W language-pack-en language-pack-gnome-en language-support-en failed; assuming incomplete language support

I then looked in the source for the pkgsel package and found these at around line 463 of postinst (the formatting is not right, but you'll see what I mean):

if $check_language_support; then
  packs="$(chroot /target check-language-support -l "$lp" || true)"
else
  packs="language-support-$lp"
fi

The problem with this is that there is no such package as language-support-en (in my case since I'm installing in English), so pkgsel ends up saying that language support is incomplete. If you go to http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=language-support-en&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all you will see that language-support-en was not in Oneiric and is not in Precise, either.

I can work around this by using pre-seeding and having

 d-i pkgsel/ignore-incomplete-language-support boolean true

but this appears to be a bug to me.

Thanks.

David

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Indeed there is funny stuff going on. Do you think you can share your pre-seed file, for me to test?

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Also is "language-selector-common" package installed into target? With that package in the target, language support should be correctly installed & enabled.