Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: evolution

PLEASE READ THIS THREAD FIRST TO FULLY UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3119577#post3119577

Also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/129849 may
help a tad.

1) Tried removing Evolution:
 
apt-get --purge remove evolution 
apt-get autoremove 

I was only able to remove

evolution
evolution-exchange
evolution-plugins
libexchange-storage1.2-3

I removed the following packages manually by searching for 'evolution'
in Synaptic

evolution-common
evolution-data-server
evolution-data-server-common
evolution-webcal
openoffice.org-evolution

I NEVER got prompts saying that any of these packages were depends of
other packages, therefore making them orphans.

I ran deborphan and found 2 more:

libegroupwise1.2-13
libedata-cal1.2-6

I WAS NOT PROMPTED ON THEIR REMOVAL EITHER!

Since no warning prompts were received, I believe they were orphaned and
should have been autoremoved when I did my 'apt-get autoremove' BUT THEY
WERE NOT.

I believe this means there are errors in listing the dependencies of
several packages' control files.

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I tried reinstalling evolution:

apt-get install evolution

7 new packages are installed:

evolution
evolution-common
evolution-data-server
evolution-data-server-common
libedata-cal1.2-6
libegroupwise1.2-13
libexchange-storage1.2-3

I noticed that many of these packages installed were removed/autoremoved
when uninstalled.

As for the other packages:

openoffice.org-evolution (unessential OOo plugin)
evolution-webcal (not sure what this does...)
evolution-exchange (listed as a suggest)
evolution-plugins (listed as a recommend)

I can see why they were left out of the vanilla evolution install (non-
essential).

So why is evolution good on installing it's depends, but fails to remove
them with 'apt-get autoremove' on the uninstall?  Nothing else depends
on them (unless something DOES and was left out of the package's list of
depends in its control file).

** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Evolution doesn't fully uninstall it's packages
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/129866
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