[Bug 1731738] Re: Do not prompt to install transitional packages

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Thanks for your report.

Well, transitional packages don't hurt, and it wouldn't be worth the
effort to maintain code in language-selector to exclude such packages.
The right step to take seems to be that the thunderbird source package
simply stops building thunderbird-locale-en-gb and thunderbird-locale-
en-us.

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

** Also affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Summary changed:

- Do not prompt to install transitional packages
+ Please stop building obsolete transitional packages

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Title:
  Please stop building obsolete transitional packages

Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Steps:

  1. Change locale to English GB
  2. Start language-selector
  3. It prompts to install missing packages in English GB
  4. The list contains transitional packages of thunderbird, which are not needed any more since Trusty; thunderbird-locale-en-gb and thunderbird-locale-en-us

  This happens in Ubuntu Xenial and above.

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