Comment 9 for bug 388909

Hi,

After a fresh install of Karmic Alpha 2, I've noticed a bunch of packages 'left behind' by the installer. These packages were *not* present on a second machine, which is running karmic but was upgraded twice from an intrepid install.

Looking at /var/log/apt on both machines, it seems that intrepid's installer removed all of these packages, but the karmic one did not.

On the intrepid->jaunty->karmic upgraded box, the log began with the removal of these packages (2009-04-01 was the installation date):

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Log ended: 2008-10-29 23:17:10

Log started: 2009-04-01 04:37:31
Log ended: 2009-04-01 04:37:31

Log started: 2009-04-01 04:40:44
Log ended: 2009-04-01 04:40:44

Log started: 2009-04-01 04:41:25
(Reading database ... 102341 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing lupin-casper ...
Removing casper ...
Purging configuration files for casper ...
Removing gparted ...
Purging configuration files for gparted ...
....
Removing ubiquity ...
Purging configuration files for ubiquity ...
Removing ubiquity-frontend-gtk ...
....
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By contrast, such a step is missing from the log on the freshly installed karmic system, and all of the above and more are installed on it. This seems clearly wrong, in particular as regards Ubiquity, whose own package description states:

 Installing this package on a normal system is unlikely to be useful.