Comment 0 for bug 285746

Binary package hint: system-cleaner

Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

Package version: system-cleaner-1.10.3-0ubuntu1

Expected behavior: respect user decision and preserve explicitly installed third-party packages

What happened instead:

The way system-cleaner identify some packages as "cruft" is problematic and worrying. I got my Chinese input method removed by system-cleaner, and when I reinstalled the two packages using dpkg, they are listed by system-cleaner as "cruft" immediately.

The said packages are for SunPinyin, which are not in repo, and can be found here: http://blog.eshangrao.com/2008/08/25/555/.
I'm also posting the direct links here as most of you probably can't read Chinese:
http://blog.eshangrao.com/wp-content/uploads/file/scim-sunpinyin_1.0~hg20080607-2_i386.deb
and
http://blog.eshangrao.com/wp-content/uploads/file/sunpinyin-data-le_1.0~hg20080607-2_all.deb

I tested again with Opera (opera_9.60.2444.gcc4.qt3_i386.deb provided by Opera for Hardy), and immediately after installation it was listed as "cruft".

This is going a bit too far, and without warning, can cause quite a lot of agony on a normal user's part.

Propose fix: at least uncheck these explicitly installed third party packages by default.