Comment 3 for bug 975778

I too just encountered this.

I unpacked both .deb files, and observed the following:

* The set of image files in both packages is identical

* Only ubuntu-backgrounds-karmic contains a background sequence XML file: /usr/share/backgrounds/contest/karmic.xml

* The /usr/share/gnome-background-properties/*.xml file contained in the two packages is identical, with the exception of the entry within the XML referencing the background sequence XML file mentioned above.

* ubuntu-wallpapers-extra additionally ships a file /usr/share/gconf/defaults/16_ubuntu-wallpapers-extra aiming to set one of its own images as a default GNOME background if installed.

Following the reasoning that gconf is deprecated by dconf, and that an additional wallpaper package probably shouldn't be trying to influence the default background anyway, I propose that ubuntu-wallpapers-karmic is strictly better than ubuntu-wallpapers-extra.

I am therefore subscribing ~ubuntu-sponsors, requesting sponsorship for a removal request for ubuntu-wallpapers-extra.