I just helped a confused user through this. It's important to note that
none of the GUI package installation utilities is able to recover from
this failure case to the point that the user can use the APT/dpkg
subsystem any more without command-line twiddling.


I understand and support the effort to fix lsb-base to make Splashy work, but 
at the same time I feel it's disappointing and just plain wrong that we are 
shipping two Ubuntu releases with an obviously known-broken package that will 
blow up the GUI package managers that non-technically-inclined users like to 
use.


In the interim, can we agree on some mitigating solution to block users from 
installing the broken package? If we can't yank it out of the archive, SRU it 
without the lsb-logging-base.sh file? SRU it to a blank package or one that the 
package manager refuses to install?

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[Jaunty] splashy 0.3.13-3ubuntu1 fresh install conflicts with lsb-base
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328089
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