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[Matthias Klose <doko@xxxxxxxxxx>]

this woldn't help, commented in the original report


** Changed in: openjdk-6 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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Circular dependency between -lib and -jre-headless
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291123
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Status in “openjdk-6” source package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix

Bug description:
openjdk-6-jre-headless depends on openjdk-6-jre-lib, while openjdk-6-jre-lib depends on openjdk-6-jre-headless.

This circular dependency can result in packages depending on default-jre-headless to fail to configure properly. One example of this is bug 288616, where Tomcat 6 fails to start during postinst if the dependency loop was arbitrarily broken at the wrong point.

This should probably be fixed by removing the "Depends: openjdk-6-jre-headless" from openjdk-6-jre-lib as nothing should rely on depending on -jre-lib to install jre-headless.