[Bug 77095] Re: Uninstalling package with Add/Remove didn't remove it from menu

[Pascal De Vuyst]

I confirm this problem on Edgy.

This is because apt-get has always been unable to remove unnecessary packages automatically. Since Edgy we have the apt-get autoremove command, packages installed by the user with an apt-get install command line are marked manually, packages pulled in by dependencies are marked as automatically installed.
When running apt-get autoremove all packages marked as automatically that have no reverse dependency packages installed anymore are removed. Packages marked as manually installed are never removed automatically.

It looks like xchat-gnome-common is marked as manually installed while
it should be marked as automatically installed. It is automatically
pulled in by installing xchat-gnome.

So it looks like during the ubuntu installation process the following command line is used:
apt-get install xchat-gnome xchat-gnome-common
while the following command line should be used:
apt-get install xchat-gnome

I don't believe the problem to be in gnome-app-install but in the ubuntu installation process.
Did you use ubiquity to install ubuntu?
Should I add a ubiquity task for this bug?

** Changed in: gnome-app-install (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Pascal De Vuyst => (unassigned)
       Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed

** Changed in: gnome-app-install (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

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Uninstalling package with Add/Remove didn't remove it from menu
https://launchpad.net/bugs/77095