Gwibber removal removes ubuntu-desktop

Bug #926811 reported by actionparsnip
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gwibber (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

andy@D420:~$ sudo apt-get --purge remove gwibber
[sudo] password for andy:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
  gwibber* ubuntu-desktop*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1,000 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gwibber 3.3.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-12.21-generic-pae 3.2.2
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-12-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 4 18:24:56 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120203)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gwibber
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Matt Parlette (matthew-parlette) wrote :

Also see but 691175, which is similar, but has to do with indicator-me

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Paul (i41bktob-launchpad-net) wrote :

As of 2012-02-22, ubuntu-desktop does not depend on gwibber, and this issue is resolved:

# apt-get purge gwibber* libgwibber*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
[...]
The following packages will be REMOVED
  gwibber* gwibber-service* gwibber-service-facebook* gwibber-service-identica*
  gwibber-service-twitter* libgwibber-gtk2* libgwibber1* libgwibber2*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1,868 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 231918 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gwibber ...

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