Package description is inaccurate
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
| xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I upgraded a dapper installation to edgy using gksu “update-manager -c”.
To clean up afterwards, I used gtkorphan and a custom filter in Synaptic (Settings > Filters > New > Deselect All > Select 'Orphaned' > OK) to identify orphaned packages to remove. This went fine. I noticed some of the packages were identified as "transtitional packages", so I did a Name and Description search in Synaptic for "transitional". This found a number of packages, which I safely removed.
It also found three installed packages (xkeyboard-config, xbase-clients and xutils) which cannot be removed without also removing ubuntu-desktop, nautilus, and several other packages. I chose not to do so.
I've also reported bugs for the other two packages; the incorrect description for xkeyboard-config is:
Transitional package for xkb-data
This package is not needed and can safely be removed from the system
once no other packages depend on it.
| Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in xkeyboard-config: | |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Rejected |
| Changed in ubuntu-meta: | |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
| Paul Natsuo Kishimoto (khaeru) wrote | #2 |
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #3 |
I believe the package description to be correct.
Instead ubuntu-desktop should not depend on the transitional package xkeyboard-config but on xkb-data.
Added affects ubuntu-desktop, rejecting task for xkeyboard-config.