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Bug#600664: Bug#600664: openjdk-6-jre-lib: unable to remove package (circular dependency on openjdk-6-jre-headless?)

 

severity serious
thanks

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Matthias Klose wrote:
> even this scenario is not reproducible for me in a fresh sid chroot. No, the
> question whether this is reproducible for other people or in a fresh chroot
> is not answered. The removal of these packages on the buildd machines does
> succeed too.

reproduced with a fresh sid chroot:

$ sudo debootstrap sid ./sid-chroot http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/
[...]
$ sudo chroot ./sid-chroot apt-get update
[...]
$ sudo chroot ./sid-chroot apt-get install openjdk-6-jre-lib
[...]
$ sudo chroot ./sid-chroot apt-get install openjdk-6-jre
[...]
$ sudo chroot ./sid-chroot apt-get purge openjdk-6-jre-lib
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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 openjdk-6-jre-headless : Depends: openjdk-6-jre-lib (>= 6b18-1.8.2-4)
but it is not going to be installed
                          Depends: ca-certificates-java but it is not
going to be installed
                          Recommends: icedtea-6-jre-cacao (=
6b18-1.8.2-4) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages





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