[Bug 327821] Re: residual config in myspell-en-us after fresh install

[Colin Watson]

OK, thanks for the information, and I now see the problem. This is an
interesting bug.

myspell-en-us is installed as part of desktop, presumably due to a
dependency from (lots of stuff) -> hunspell -> myspell-en-us | myspell-
dictionary | hunspell-dictionary. Furthermore, language-support-writing-
en Depends: hunspell-en-us which Replaces: and Conflicts: myspell-en-us.
Thus, myspell-en-us gets installed in one phase of building the live
filesystem, and hunspell-en-us then gets installed in a later phase and
causes myspell-en-us to be removed.

Thus I think there's a two-part bug here. One is that livecd-rootfs
doesn't cope with this by using the (admittedly odd-looking) 'apt-get
--purge install' construction to arrange that any packages removed as a
result of Conflicts are purged. The other is that ubuntu-desktop
installs one package and then language-support-en installs a conflicting
one (although it does still satisfy one of the alternatives of the
relevant dependency); that's just twisted and we should fix it.

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

** Changed in: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

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residual config in myspell-en-us after fresh install
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/327821
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