language-support-translations-* installs evolution-documentation-* and should not be required.

The immediate issue here can be worked around by making evolution-documentation-*'s dependencies lighter. We have no solution for language-support-translation-en's dependencies at present.

This bug was fixed in the package evolution - 2.25.91-0ubuntu2

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evolution (2.25.91-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    - Permit language-support-translations-LL as an alternative to yelp in
      evolution-documentation-LL's dependencies, to make language-support-*
      a bit more lightweight for Kubuntu users (LP: #333401).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:32:08 +0000

Please, forget me if I am wrong. I did understand that it was fixed since package 2.25.91, but the problem still persist in package 2.26.1.
The packages evolution-documentation-LL is installed for every language available in the system, in my case English and Spanish. See the attached picture, It is a screen shot of Synaptic package manager showing evolution-documentation-es and evolution-documentation-en installed in my Kubuntu 9.04 which is up-to-date. When trying to remove them the package manager automatically select the dependents packages language-support-translation-en/es respectively to be removed too.

Thanks

This bug is present in Karmic.
Running KDE,

devil@core7:~$ sudo aptitude purge evolution-documentation-en
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  language-support-translations-en
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  evolution-documentation-en{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 623kB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  language-support-translations-en: Depends: evolution-documentation-en but it is not installable
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages:
language-support-en
language-support-translations-en
thunderbird-locale-en-gb

Score is 257

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]

This bug is still present in oneiric: language-support-translations-en shouldn't depend on evolution-documentation-en! It could recommend it instead of depending on it, but it's not even necessary as evolution is no longer included in the CD!

> $ sudo aptitude remove evolution-common
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> evolution-common
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 10.1 MB will be freed.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> language-support-translations-en: Depends: evolution-documentation-en which is a virtual package.
> The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
>
> Remove the following packages:
> 1) language-support-translations-en
>
>
>
> Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]

@Yann I ran into the same problem in Oneiric, but in fact language-support-translations-en no longer exists in Oneiric at all! It hasn't existed for ages. Somehow for both you and me a previous upgrade failed to remove it from our systems.

@Yann Filed as bug 890043.

Thanks Tristan! I didn't thought about checking if it was still needed. I've let aptitude uninstall it, then.