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[Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert@xxxxxxxxx>]

severity 600664 serious
tag -moreinfo

it looks like you also need to have openjdk-6-jre installed to be ablo
to reproduce this. otherwise, removal works fine.

note that in this situation, openjdk-6-jre is also unremovable.  in
fact it *installs* packages given a removal command:

$ sudo apt-get purge openjdk-6-jre
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  default-jre default-jre-headless
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  default-jre default-jre-headless
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 319 not upgraded.
Need to get 8,442B of archives.
After this operation, 77.8kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

so, ultimately once you have openjdk-6-jre and openjdk-6-jre-lib
installed, there is no way to remove them.  thanks for looking into
this.

mike