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There's another solution here:
http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5792430&postcount=7

Matthias: I don't know what you mean by "not a problem with openjdk-6".
It's a problem with the packages which make up Hardy, which is the
current stable release of Ubuntu and therefore vaguely important.
OpenJDK is simply not installable, without doing one of these workaround
solutions.

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openjdk-6-jre is uninstalable as of Thu Aug  7 14:16:14 UTC 2008
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255738
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Status in “openjdk-6” source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released

Bug description:
Binary package hint: openjdk-6-jre

Helping a user on irc ( #ubuntu channel) he wants to install openjdk-6-jre it fails with the openjdk-6-jre-headless dependencie and packages fals down the chain as follows (from a pastebin)

$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre-headless
[sudo] password for danya: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  openjdk-6-jre-headless: Depends: tzdata-java but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
danya@Do0oDz:~$ sudo apt-get install tzdata-java
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  tzdata-java: Depends: tzdata (= 2008b-1ubuntu1) but 2008e-1ubuntu0.8.04 is to be installed
E: Broken packages


He has updates enabled the package should not be broken