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(Get the code!)
Argh!
Sandro: you have just, 25 minutes ago, begun the Nth iteration of this stupid process.
This package has been wasting the time of users for years now, perhaps since the first ever release of Ubuntu. Every time someone asks Ubuntu to stop shipping it on the grounds that not only does it fail to do something good, but it actively does something bad, then someone else says "Well, let's fix it instead!", then there follows a discussion about how to fix or replace it, which goes nowhere. Eventually, that the discussion dies off, and then a new release of Ubuntu comes out with the same stupid broken package in it.
Allow me to suggest a simple course of action which is sure to break this cycle.
Step 1: PLEASE JUST REMOVE THE DAMNED EXECUTABLE!
Step is estimated to take about 5 minutes.
Step 2: Then please proceed to begin the N+1th iteration of a discussion about how to fix or replace it.
Thank you.