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[Stefan <stela@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For others with the same problem, I found out what the problem was, at
least in my case.

I had the very same issue as reported here for a good while, an obsolete
tzdata-java was dependent on tzdata=2008b-1ubuntu1, preventing
installation of both openjdk-6 and an up to date tzdata. Apparently the
two binary packages even originate from a single source package, making
the situation rather strange.

Turned out my /etc/apt/sources.list was inconsistent. tzdata is part of
main, but tzdata-java is part of universe. Somehow my
/etc/apt/sources.list was missing updates for universe (and multiverse).
While I was at it, I also added hardy-security for universe and
multiverse as well. I must have forgotten those entries while editing
sources.list.

After fixing my sources.list, it now works again. Besides tzdata-java
there was about a dozen updates to apply, including a few security-
related ones.

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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: Invalid

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