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[Matthias Klose <doko@xxxxxxxxxx>]

yes, should be a versioned conflict. for now, please just remove the
icedtea-gcjwebplugin package


** Changed in: icedtea-gcjwebplugin (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium
       Status: New => Triaged

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icedtea-gcjwebplugin broken dependency on icedtea6-plugin 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284299
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Status in “icedtea-gcjwebplugin” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged

Bug description:
Binary package hint: icedtea-gcjwebplugin

icedtea-gcjwebplugin wont install due to broken dependency on icedtea6-plugin, even if this is already installed. possibly a circular dependency? icedtea-gcjwebplugin depends on  icedtea6-plugin but  icedtea6-plugin conflicts with and replaces icedtea-gcjwebplugin


amd64, synced to intrepid main repository


 apt-get install icedtea-gcjwebplugin
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.
  icedtea-gcjwebplugin: Depends: icedtea6-plugin but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

icedtea-gcjwebplugin 1.0-1ubuntu4
icedtea6-plugin  6b12-0ubuntu1