[Bug 130503] Re: updates break kubuntu

[viking777]

Scott: Thank you very much for the prompt reply and interesting to note that not everyone is experiencing this problem. I will try to be more specific. 
When I say 'break' I mean that any of the above mentioned updates insist on removing 'kubuntu-desktop' which as far as I understand is an integral part of kubuntu/kde. I have tried accepting the update and although the result is still bootable it is not pretty to look at with fonts reduced in size to near invisibilty and various other faults. I didn't keep the result long enough to make a list of all of them but reinstalled from a disk image. 
Here is the output of the 'dist-upgrade' command:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
  adept adept-batch adept-installer adept-manager adept-notifier adept-updater
  kubuntu-desktop language-selector-qt
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apt apt-utils aptitude debtags libept0 python-apt synaptic
7 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 5594kB of archives.
After unpacking 6402kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

As you can see it still insists in removing kubuntu-desktop.
The result is the same for each package individually as well eg.

 sudo apt-get install debtags
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  syslinux liblzo1 ms-sys lzop afio buffer
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  apt apt-utils aptitude libept0 python-apt synaptic
Suggested packages:
  apt-doc lzma tagcoll python-apt-dbg dwww
Recommended packages:
  aptitude-doc-en aptitude-doc libparse-debianchangelog-perl deborphan
  libgnome2-perl
The following packages will be REMOVED
  adept adept-batch adept-installer adept-manager adept-notifier adept-updater
  kubuntu-desktop language-selector-qt
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apt apt-utils aptitude debtags libept0 python-apt synaptic
7 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 5594kB of archives.
After unpacking 6402kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
I am pretty sure that I don't want to remove kubuntu-desktop hence the bug report.

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updates break kubuntu
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130503
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